Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917–2008) Irish politician
New Republic, November 4, 1985
Interruption from the Right: 'Yet you signed for fifty-one years'
Speech in the Reichstag (24 June 1929), quoted in W. M. Knight-Patterson, Germany. From Defeat to Conquest 1913-1933 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1945), p. 438
1920s
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917–2008) Irish politician
New Republic, November 4, 1985
Vonda N. McIntyre book Dreamsnake
Source: Dreamsnake (1978), Chapter 9 (p. 205)
“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
Terry Pratchett book Monstrous Regiment
Source: Monstrous Regiment
Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Planning for a Better World
Rand Paul (1963) American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky
2015-05-20
Full Transcript: Rand Paul’s Filibuster of the PATRIOT Act, Hour 2
Breitbart
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/20/full-transcript-rand-pauls-filibuster-of-the-patriot-act-hour-2/
2015-06-13
2010s
“At the beginning of a decade it is tempting to look ahead for the next ten years.”
Lawrence Klein (1920–2013) American economist
"Some Economic Scenarios for the 1980's," 1980
Eric Clapton (1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Fred Stuckey, "Eric Clapton Interview," Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com http://www.guitarplayer.com/miscellaneous/1139/gp-flashback-eric-clapton-june-1970/12798
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"You and the Atom Bomb" http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb, Tribune (19 October 1945). Reprinted in George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose 1946–1950 (2000) by Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus, p. 9. <!-- http://books.google.com/books?id=zaxG_3ivhVAC&pg=PA9&dq=orwell+%22permanent+state+of+cold+war%22&sig=XIYruzSnIoMeE2TwqGRNoNA4IuE --><br>First documented use of the phrase "cold war". <br class="br">Context: Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications — that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbors.<br>Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If, as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely a "peace that is no peace."