PandemicSoul Quotelog

In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.

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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

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When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

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Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.

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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

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I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.