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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not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a
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as at the measures.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
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Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.
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We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and
identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been
Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.
We have made the Reich by propaganda.
We have made the Reich by propaganda.
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Man is by nature a political animal.
