The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
GORE VIDALFrom 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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Corporations must pay tax.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Love is not my bag.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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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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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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I hate nobody.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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To 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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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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 days.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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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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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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