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I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.

— Joe Biden Promises to Keep (2008)

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I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.

Promises to Keep (2008)

We’re mourning more than 4.5 million people — people of every nation from every background.

I say this as a father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq.

If you notice, I have more people supporting me in the black community that have announced for me, because they know me.

I call on everyone, no matter how deeply they care about this decision, to keep all protests peaceful.

Remarks on the Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade (2022)

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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