"America slept because most Americans preferred it that…" — Ferdinand Mount
"America slept because most Americans preferred it that way."
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23 Quotes by Ferdinand Mount
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability…
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What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting…
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are…
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to…
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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way…
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells…
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For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing…
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the…
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair…
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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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