"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

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