Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who ‘speak truth to power,’ but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
Category: demagogues
Trading down
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
The pretense of caring
The great inlet by which a color for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
Traitors
No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for a man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
Don’t be talked out of your liberties
Be not intimidated … nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.
Demagogues and bureaucrats
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
Letter from President Donald J. Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Madam Speaker:
I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.
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It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Addicted to power
Those who have been intoxicated with power … can never willingly abandon it.
Power to the people?
Socialists cry ‘power to the people’ and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know they really mean power over people. Power to the state.