"When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in……" — Rick Perlstein
"When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger."
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39 Quotes by Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein has 39 quotes on this site.
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It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian…
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Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting…
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No historical analogies are exactly precise.
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All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology…
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Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of…
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Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his…
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Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under…
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Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the…
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Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
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Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
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Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.
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For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
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More Armed Quotes
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other…
— William Henry Ashley
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against…
— James A. Baldwin
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because…
— Gerry Adams
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the…
— Kate Adie
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I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed,…
— Buffalo Bill
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As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated…
— John O. Brennan
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The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other…
— John O. Brennan
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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution.…
— Akhenaton
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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend…
— King Albert II
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down…
— Dick Cheney
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