Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.
When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.
Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.
The Factor concept is very simple: Watch all of those in power, including and especially the media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday Americans. Never before in the United States had a television news guy dared to criticize other journalists on a regular basis. The late Peter Jennings, a friend, told me I was crazy to do it. "These people will not allow anyone to scrutinize them," he said. "They will come after you with a vengeance. " And so they have.
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness
I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.
When you're in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.
. . . true civil disobedience. . . compels the state to resort to power.
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.
The E. U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.
The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?
The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.
[Donald Trump] suggestions that the United States should leave the Pacific and let Japan, South Korea, or whoever else wants to develop nuclear weapons. These are incredibly dangerous ideas that need to be confronted.
For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.
A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.