Garry Wills famous quotes
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Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
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To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.
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The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
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There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
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Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This is the crucial role. Followers judge leaders. Only if the leaders pass that test do they have any impact. The potential followers, if their judgment is poor, have judged themselves. If the leader takes his or her followers to the goal, to great achievements, it is because the followers were capable of that kind of response.
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Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'
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It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.
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The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.
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Every civilized society must disarm its citizens against each other.
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Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite subjects -themselves.
-- Garry Wills
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