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" Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250. "

Gore Vidal

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Military

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" I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. "

" Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. "

" If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected. "

" In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. "

" Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. "

" I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape. "

" I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is. "

" I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. "

" All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. "

" On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia. "

" In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. "

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. "

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" I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place. "

" Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? "

" The media can't get anything straight. "

" Never have children, only grandchildren. "

" World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name. "

" Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. "

" It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

" In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. "

" Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality. "

" No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party? "

" At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. "