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Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to figh...

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Facts are subversive

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I'm working on this book on the trial of Socrates. It started out with the idea of the problem of fr...

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If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did a...

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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

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I. F. Stone

Journalist

Born: 1907-12-24

Died: 1989-06-18

Isador Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989), better known as I. F. Stone, was a politically progressive American investigative journalist, writer, and author. He is best remembered for I. F. Stone's Weekly (1953–71), a newsletter ranked 16th among the top hundred works of journalism in the U.S., in the 20th century, by the New York University journalism department, in 1999; and second place among print journalism publications.More