"Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence."

-- John Foster Dulles

#Government Quotes #Against Violence Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad”
“That comes from most people having an American film model in their heads which is nothing but a total illusionary masturbatory massage.”
“For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.”
“Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.”
“That's the conditions that prevail!”

Source : "Current Biography: Who's News and Why". Book by Anna Rothe (p. 168), 1946.
“Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.”
“You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.”
“I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the notion that good people don't do this; good people are responsible, good people participate in community, and good people vote, good people own land. These were things I heard from my father's pulpit.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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