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The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.


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ALEX LIFESON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all k...
THOMAS SOWELL The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all k...
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DONALD TRUMP Wars are made by those who are old enough to know better, and fought by those who are not.
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STEPHEN SANSWEET Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy d...
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STEVEN MAGEE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
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DIANA BURCH uno se pregunta hasta donde ha llegado la metástasis de la corrupción. Al mirar a los jóvenes eur...
SARAH CORTEZ Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic...
FULTON J. SHEEN The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers ha...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us....
DEYTH BANGER The nation working together has made substantial progress in confronting illegal drug abuse and drug...
BARRY MCCAFFREY Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.
ARUNDHATI ROY It sends a signal that the U.S. economy has weathered some pretty harsh storms over the past few yea...
ART HOGAN All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys
HERMAN MELVILLE A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. G...
JOHN KASICH A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go .....
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EVAN MEDEIROS So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we've banished othe...
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CARL ROWAN The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in h...
CARL ROWAN The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in h...
CARL T. ROWAN The DRC has been an outstanding example of that for seven years. We've seen wars that have led to th...
MARK LATTIMER The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers ha...
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V.E. SCHWAB Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
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DICK CHENEY When a respected leader like Mr. Murtha, who has spent 37 extremely honorable years as a Marine, fou...
GENPETER PACE When a respected leader like Mr. Murtha, who has spent 37 extremely honorable years as a Marine, fou...
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PHIL KLAY The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
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ROBERT ADAIR One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression...
THOMAS SOWELL Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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G. EDWARD GRIFFIN It is certain that the two World Wars in which I have participated would not have occurred had we be...
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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ARTHUR BRYAN Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankin...
LAUREN DESTEFANO The U.S. government places considerable trust in those given access to classified information, and w...
DANA BOENTE If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying.
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ILONA ANDREWS The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The ...
EUGENE V. DEBS All government wars are unjust.
MURRAY ROTHBARD The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equa...
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JEANETTE WINTERSON Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas.
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JAY BAKER Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's a...
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AYMAN ZAWAHIRI We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons, most of...
ANDREW MACK The increasing use of drones and such other machines in wars shows how sissified the American milita...
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JACKIE JACKSON What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That ...
IAN JACKSON I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do i...
IAN JACKSON I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going t...
IAN JACKSON If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certa...
IAN JACKSON I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general ...
IAN JACKSON We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you...
IAN JACKSON I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about...
PHIL JACKSON A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...
JANET JACKSON I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
STONEWALL JACKSON New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be...
JACKSON POLLOCK I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.
CURTIS JACKSON Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we ...
CURTIS JACKSON Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON I want to have a normal high-school experience.
PARIS JACKSON I do have a regular childhood.
PARIS JACKSON