Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
GORE VIDALEurope began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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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 exactly five years.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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