Bret Stephens - It's easy to deprecate some of...

It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.

Bret Stephens

American Journalist

Born: Nov 21, 1973

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Confuse, Mediocrity, Our, Evidence, Easy, Some, Proof, Perfection, Also, Go, Greatness, American, Often, Shortcomings

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If you can't convince them, confuse them. Harry S Truman

You Confuse Them Convince

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. Edward R. Murrow

Soul Confuse Think Dissent Must Opposition America Dies Loyal

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal

Time You Vote People Words Disguise Election Language Liberate Will Own Confuse Action Too Destroying City Time People Decadent Against Interests Used Grow Illuminate Grows Societies