Every predecessor has used mercenaries, often drawn from the country that they're attacking like England ran India with Indian mercenaries. You take them from one place and send them to kill people in the other place. That's the standard way to run imperial wars.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

Should we even have the classification system? Why shouldn't these things be open? There are things you want to keep secret, like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that.