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When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
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It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review…
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him…
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals…
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Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance…
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Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to…
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Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb…
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue -…
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being…
— Bruce Lee
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He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only…
— Robert South
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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
— Tahir Shah
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Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones,…
— Maxim Gorky
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An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.
— Joyce Cary
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how…
— John Lennon
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him…
— William Shakespeare
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He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of…
— Tom Robbins
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