Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
GORE VIDALTo preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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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 cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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We’re not a democracy.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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