There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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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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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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