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Gerard Heinz, in the voice of Hortal:

These people do not need reasons. It’s a dictatorship. Men are imprisoned and shot at the President’s whim.

Aside:

He left out the part about sending them to El Salvadoran gulags.

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Johann Most:

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

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John Gunther:

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

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Christopher Bond:

History’s lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

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P. D. James:

Unless the young can use language effectively, both to express their own minds and to understand the minds of others, it is difficult to see how we can have a vigorous democracy in which ideas and policies can be intelligently presented, considered and criticised or achieve that understanding with other countries which nations enjoy through access to each other’s language and literature.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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John Hickenlooper:

Isolationism is not leadership.

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Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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Steve Kagen:

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

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George Henry Lewes:

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

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Robert Wilson Lynd:

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

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Baron d’Holbach:

Everything that passes in the world, proves to us, in the clearest manner, that it is not governed by an intelligent being.

Q. E. D.

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Keram Malicki-Sánchez, in the voice of Lyn Moncrief:

There’s a great deal to be learned from the mistakes of others.

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John Rawls:

The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.

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Blaise Pascal:

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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Michel de Montaigne:

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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Galen:

The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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Retired Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig:

The President of the United States of America is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law.

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Niall Ferguson:

We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don’t understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

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Walter Brown, in the voice of General Cuevas:

Very well, we shall now see if two idiots working together are more efficient than one idiot by himself.

For some fool reason, that seems a particularly timely remark, even though it was scripted over half a century ago.

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