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Kid Berwyn

(14,654 posts)
1. "His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him..."
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 03:40 PM
Feb 2022

“…the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.”

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,790 posts)
3. Noteworthy quote. July 24, 2018, to a Veteran's VFW convention in Kansas City
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:35 PM
Feb 2022

In a context of slapping tariffs on US trading partners, but free-floating.

https://time.com/5347737/trump-quote-george-orwell-vfw-speech/

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