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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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