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Some of us do not agree with every statement in the official …

Some of us do not agree with every statement in the official platform of our party, but . . . if each segment, each section of our great party were to insist on the complete and unqualified acceptance of its views, if each viewpoint were to be enforced by a Russian-type veto, the Republican Party would not long survive. Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater, 1960 (1909-1998)

The Gore family had close, personal ties to oil magnate, Armand Hammer. …

The Gore family had close, personal ties to oil magnate, Armand Hammer. After his defeat as Senator, Al Gore, Sr. was given a $500,000 a year job to head up theOccidental Petroleum’s coal division. Hammer, however, was a longtime Soviet agent, a personal friend of Lenin and the only American to receive the Order of Lenin from the then Soviet government. Today, Al Gore, Jr. serves as co-chairman of the US-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation, better known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission.

When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my …

When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my mother for an act of collective brutality in which I had been involved at school. A group of seven-year-olds had been teasing and tormenting a six-year-old. ‘It is always so,’ my mother said. ‘You do things together which not one of you would think of doing alone.’ … Wherever one looks in the world of human organization, collective responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. Freeman Dyson
Weapons and Hope