The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
GORE VIDALThe Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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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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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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