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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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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband…
— Michele Bachmann
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
— Hillary Clinton
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they…
— Adolf Hitler
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists…
— Chris Hedges
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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not…
— Ayn Rand
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There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the…
— Hal Borland
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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.
— Scott Belsky
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What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.
— Jane Rogers
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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive
— John Zorn
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We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would…
— Jessie Daniel Ames
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