On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
Gore VidalActually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.
Gore VidalAs Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
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