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Rhode Island is the only state in the union founded expressly for religious freedom. It was the first American colony to celebrate, rather than tolerate, the differences among us. In this respect, the fact that Rhode Island is also the
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“We have noted that corruption appears to visit the White House in fifty-year cycles. This suggests that exposure and retribution inoculate the Presidency against its latent criminal impulses for about half a century. Around the year 2023 the American people would be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight.”
― The Imperial Presidency
― The Imperial Presidency
“I hope you’ve learned a lesson. No good comes from trying to impose your will on nature.” Bruce said, “I’m a farmer. I make my living and put food on your table by imposing my will on nature.”
― That's Not Right
― That's Not Right
“Somewhere in the Paramount vaults, there must be an outtake of me tottering onto the Enterprise bridge from the captain’s ready room and saying, “Tea is in the tapestry room, Your Grace.” Everyone on the bridge laughed, but our director had no idea what was going on and was none too pleased. Remember, we were not there to have fun.”
― Making It So: A Memoir
― Making It So: A Memoir
“He spoke very correctly, as if he wished he had an English accent but wasn’t quite pretentious enough to affect one.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
“A further reason for the indestructibility of the Presidency lies in the psychology of mass democracy. Once again Tocqueville provides the text. “Our contemporaries,” he wrote, “are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free....By this system the people shake off their state of dependency just long enough to select their master and then relapse into it again.”
― The Imperial Presidency
― The Imperial Presidency
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