If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
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not men, but measures, that I am read more
It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being
not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a
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as at the measures.
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It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
