"When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger."

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Source : "Gun nuts are terrorizing America: The watershed moment everyone missed" by Rick Perlstein, www.salon.com. June 23, 2014.

Rick Perlstein

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“You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.”
“I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.”
“I like the physicality in doing the different physical motions, being a beast.”
“Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert”
“If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.”
“"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."”
“How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.”
“If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ***** every time.”

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