PandemicSoul Quotelog

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

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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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I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

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I am tired of fighting, our chiefs are killed…it is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death…hear me, my chiefs, I am tired: my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands…I will fight no more forever…

before his tribe was slaughtered
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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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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

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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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