Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

One's neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.