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The enormous sales, though, do not mean that there is universal respect for Zinn’s work. In fact, in the court of scholarly opinion, Zinn’s book is closer to David Irving’s frauds than to an esteemed work of history. Zinn has been slammed
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
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“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
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