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For the average American, fre...

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

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The war against terror is lik...

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.

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My father had a deep and life...

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

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The Puritans left England for...

The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

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How to get people to vote aga...

How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

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The same people own the media...

The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.

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Politics is made up of two wo...

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

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There is something about the ...

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

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True wisdom is to know the ex...

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

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There are a great many people...

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

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You know, I've been around th...

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

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The United States was founded...

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

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Liberal comes from the Latin ...

Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

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The word 'radical' derives fr...

The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical. It is no accident that the word has now been totally demonized.

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Every four years the naive ha...

Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be.

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Most writers are middle-class...

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

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It doesn't actually make any ...

It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

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There is only one party in th...

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.

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Terrorism is a direct respons...

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

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When anyone says to me, 'Can ...

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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