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Christopher Enger
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“Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,”
― From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989
― From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989
“Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur with its marble columns and gilt spires. The beliefs represented by that impressive structure seemed curious to Ryan, a lifelong Catholic, but the people who held them were honest and hardworking, and fiercely loyal to their country, because they believed in what America stood for.”
― Clear and Present Danger
― Clear and Present Danger
“The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.”
― Clear and Present Danger
― Clear and Present Danger
“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.”
― 1984
― 1984
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