Henry Steele Commager Quotes

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele Commager

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In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.

Joe Klein

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People have their guard down when they're laughing, so they're open to tougher conversations they wouldn't necessarily have. If somebody is guarded while laughing, they're a weirdo.

Jessica Williams

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Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

Michael Chertoff

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For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by that WWE mentality. There's other worlds out there; it's OK to switch around.

Jeff Hardy

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The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

Stephen Kinzer

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They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

Michael Tilson Thomas

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All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

Michael Spence

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Calvin Coolidge was one of the best presidents. Why? Because he did absolutely nothing.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Dennis Prager

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I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Christopher Hitchens

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The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

Colin Powell

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I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

Cindy Sheehan

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