Quotes 6

Quotes 6

"As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves to President Woodrow Wilson to carry out a task they called 'historical engineering,' by which they meant designing the facts of history so that they would serve state policy. In this instance, the U.S. government wanted to silence opposition to the war. This represents a version of Orwell's 1984, even before Orwell was writing. "

-Noam Chomsky

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"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

-George Washington

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"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."

-Emma Goldman

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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

-George Washington