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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…
• ...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
• When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
• In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much…
• It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of…
• Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.…
• In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from…
• True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
• Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,…
• Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
• The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for…
• 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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