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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in…
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
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In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much…
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It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of…
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.…
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In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from…
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True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
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Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,…
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Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
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The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for…
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H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am…
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The greatest act of courage is not falling in love But, despite everything, falling in love again.
— Robin Wayne Bailey
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Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you…
— Ehud Olmert
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the…
— James Salter
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Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into…
— Peter Kreeft
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The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your…
— Robert Higgs
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It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.
— Halldór Laxness
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Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice…
— Desmond Tutu
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Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about…
— Steven Johnson
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You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out…
— Daoud Hari
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Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.
— Peter Lawford
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I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is…
— Sri Chinmoy
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We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to…
— Wilma Mankiller
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