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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted...more

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying...more

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever si...more

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Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished color...more

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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these d...more

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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his au...more

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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

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I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation,...more

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There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

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It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as ours should, over the years, have come yo care so...more

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Foreigners are mystified by the whole business while thoughtful Americans – there are several of us – are equally mystified that the ruling establishm...more