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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."
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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."

"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."

"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
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