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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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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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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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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Love is not my bag.
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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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