Ned M Campbell

“The political liberty for which they fought had led them to an extreme expectation of personal liberty to the point of selfishness. Patriotism and sense of duty were still new ideas for the provincial armies.63”
― Derek W. Beck, The War Before Independence: 1775-1776

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I am not going to lose Vietnam," he said. "I am not going to be the President who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went."2 For many Americans then and later the struggle in Vietnam was simply "Johnson's War."3”
― James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974

“A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there’s perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.”
― Umberto Eco, Chronicles of a Liquid Society