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

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" Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now. "

" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "

" 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. "

" That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. "

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. "

" Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. "

" My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons. "

" Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "

" McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. "

" We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" 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. "

" Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. "

" I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters. "

" A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "

" I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. "

" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. "

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

" By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. "

" Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "