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Yet these remedies were no crankier than the ingredients authorized by the country’s most elite medical men in the directory of medicines, the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, published by the Royal College of Physicians in 1746.19 Although the
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“After Watergate, few would have predicted today’s dynamic in which some journalists view their job not as questioning the powers that be, but undermining those who report on the powers that be.”
― Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington
― Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
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“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! —WILLIAM PITT THE ELDER, 1763”
― Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
― Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World
“Most of the time, however, the cruelty of Soviet camp guards was unthinking, stupid, lazy cruelty, of the sort that might be shown to cattle or sheep.”
― Gulag: A History
― Gulag: A History
“You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.' - To Neville Chamberlain”
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