One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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