Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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Mr. Truman thinks of himself as a liberal. It is at once something subtler and more human than hypocrisy which leads him to say, "We must take our stand on the Bill of Rights. The inquisition, the star chamber, have no place in a free society." The same capacity for inviting war in the name of peace made it possible for him to launch star chamber loyalty purges and peacetime sedition prosecutions while preaching civil liberties.
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