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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

— Isabel Paterson The God of the Machine (1943)

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The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

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What the past shows, by overwhelming evidence, is that the imponderables outweigh every material article in the scales of human endeavor.

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When the word leader, or leadership, returns to current use, it connotes a relapse into barbarism. For a civilized people, it is the most ominous word in any language.

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