"For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us."

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Source : "I Dream of Common Wealth" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. March 29, 2012.

Charlie Pierce

#Heart Quotes #Government Quotes #May Quotes

“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

Source : "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)
“You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.”
“I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a 'character' than a model.”
“White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.”
“I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.”
“It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire”
“I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.”

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