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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voting at elections is the best read more
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best method.
[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio,
nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
There are no true friends in politics.
There are no true friends in politics.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
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Party honesty is party expediency.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin,
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Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin,
the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which
partisanship was installed in the Commission.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and
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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.
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief
