A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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  Government of the people, by the people, for the people.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  War propaganda comes down, in the end, to substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings.

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  The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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  Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

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  Power is not a means; it is an end.

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