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In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man’s soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.
By choice Marko became individual in his thinking, and so unknowingly committed the gravest sin in the Communist pantheon.
preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger; that danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
First Rule of Security: The likelihood of a secret’s being blown is proportional to the square of the number of people who’re in on it.”
It is a principle of diplomacy,” Pelt observed, “that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.”
Russians—they remind me so much of the mafia chieftains I used to prosecute. The same smattering of culture and good manners, and the same absence of morality.”
It was people like these who had built the American Dream, and people like these who were needed to maintain it.
