Civil war Quote by Walter Karp
““Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.””
““Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.””
![“What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.” quote by Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b1/walter-karp-49008_budgets_what-chiefly-governs-the-u-s-military-bu_878781.jpg)
![“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.” quote by Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/138/walter-karp-49008_authority_the-public-school-system-is-usually-a-tw_1587731.jpg)
![“There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform…” quote by Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be9/walter-karp-49008_accomplish_there-is-nothing-puzzling-about-america_1827112.jpg)
