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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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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