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.
GORE VIDALAyn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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I can understand companionship.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Europe 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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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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