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“Watch them riding through the night, the prime minister of the new country and the former prime minister of the old country, see their car driving down the city’s avenues, see them growing smaller. It was the first time that a Dutchman and an Indonesian at this level had interacted with each other with such warmth, almost as friends. It was also the last time. The car disappeared into the distance.”

“That we live in a society seemed lost of some of the evangelists of exit - the people talking about the need to start new cities or new currencies. They wanted an à la carte approach to the social contract, to enjoy the benefits they preferred with few of the compromises or responsibilities towards others”

“A letter to Life later that summer read, “It was a valuable object lesson to homegrown advocates of anarchy and revolution, regardless of age”.
Time had called the Silent Majority “not so much shrill as perplexed” possessed of a “civics-book sense of decency.” Pity poor Time, whose America was but a memory.”