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George is Currently Reading

George Siehl is currently reading

The 14th Colony (Cotton Malone, #11)

by Steve Berry (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, government, history-american, intelligence, military, owned, international-relations, currently-reading

read in January 2025

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George Siehl said: " I love it when a thriller plot element seems relevant to a current news topic. Steve Berry's 2016 novel The 14th Colony does just that. The 14th Colony means Canada and the inclusion in America's Articles of Confederation. There, the Founders held ou ...more "

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George’s Quotes

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”
― Barry Goldwater

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“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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“We move to Camp David and we hide. They can't get in there.”
― H. R. Haldeman

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“So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.”
― Niall Ferguson

tags: democracy, freedom, liberalism, liberty

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“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: civic-duty, dissent, patriotism, truth-telling

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