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troy — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:44:45 +0000

“There is only one start you can make, and that is a start toward
being England. A refusal to be a province of Israel, or an outpost
of Yankee-Judaea.”
–Ezra Pound

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troy — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:10:49 +0000

“One of the great questions of our time is whether Europe will, in the coming century, maintain its identity and civilization, or be gradually absorbed into the expanding Muslim world. And America’s fate cannot be divorced from that of its forebears.”
– Mona Charen

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troy — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:56:56 +0000

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

–Samuel P. Huntington

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troy — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:31:59 +0000

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

–Saint Dominic de Guzman

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troy — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:39:38 +0000

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. . . . It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. . .

–Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953

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troy — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:20:58 +0000

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

–Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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troy — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:46:37 +0000

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

–Eric Alterman, Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the
Collapse of American politics (1992)

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troy — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:07:17 +0000

Preventive war became our national policy, which has not been any nation’s policy since Hitler. A preventive war is about as un-American as you get. But that doesn’t mean we haven’t done it before. The worst (previous) example was the Mexican War. That brave moralist, Ulysses S. Grant, who had been a second lieutenant just out of West Point, hated that war and said … that nations like individuals suffer for their transgressions. I believe the Civil War was the judgment of God on us for what we did to Mexico. God knows what we are going to get for Iraq.

–Gore Vidal

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troy — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:18:03 +0000

Great Britain will imperialized itself out of existence, Germany will militarized itself out of existence and the United States will spend itself out of existence.

–Vladimir Lenin

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troy — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:54:59 +0000

The greatest threat to the future of our nation — to our freedom — is not foreign military aggression or internal communistic subversion but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility.

–Charles B. Shuman, The Freeman [February 1977]