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“The American government is doing whatever it wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing.”

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The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they…

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There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys…

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I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.

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In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They…

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The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

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I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out…

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Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation…

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The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth,…

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Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good.

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Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

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“For the same reason , the American government has invented a completely new juridical category , that of 'illegal enemy combatants'. In general, the perpetrators of violence against the population clearly fall into two groups which, once they have been arrested, come under different jurisdictions, but still possess certain rights. In times of peace, they are criminals, protected in every…

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“vividly revealed the arms industry’s ‘constant tendency towards bribery, and the playing off of one country against another to sell arms’. It also exposed the extent to which arms salesmen were supported by their governments: ‘It makes one wonder,’ commented the Senator, ‘whether the army or the navy are just organisations of salesmen for private industry, paid for by the…

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“Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference? To me, it doesn’t matter. It’s…

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“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first place. Their motivations are more often secular: they mention their sympathy for a population reduced to poverty, the victims of the whim of ruling classes that live in luxury and corruption- rulers able to maintain themselves in power…

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I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. ... They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still…

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To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of…

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No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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“Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the country's finances flourished, and the investigation into his affairs had ended with a ringing exoneration. He had prevailed in almost every major program he had sponsored--whether the bank, assumption, funding the public debt, the tax system, the Customs…

Ron Chernow

“American breweries preexisted American government; some of the breweries’ staunchest supporters were also the leaders of the new nation. In colonial America, the alehouse was second only to the church in importance. (As Martin Luther once said, “’Tis better to think of church in the alehouse than to think of the alehouse in church.”) Aside from being where the brewer…

Marty Nachel

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“In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the ambassador to Britain. The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress’ vote to appease. During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards…

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