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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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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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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
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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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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Invention President Suspend War
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.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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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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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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We’re not a democracy.
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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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