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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 slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
— Thomas Carlyle
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to…
— B R Ambedkar
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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.
— B R Ambedkar
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
— Robert Higgs
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History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports…
— John Eliot
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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because…
— Sylvia Earle
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been…
— Ramsey Clark
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We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win.…
— Unknown Author
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History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a…
— Ronald Reagan
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Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will…
— Charles Lindbergh
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