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"We have had enough of power without truth. We don't have to accept power without truth or leave the country. I don't accept that alternative. I don't intend to leave the country, and I don't intend to accept power without truth. I intend to fight for the truth, and I suggest that not only is this not un-American but it is the most American thing we can do, because if the truth does not endure then our country will not endure -- not in the way it was supposed to. In our country the worst of all crimes is when the government murders truth. If it can murder truth, it can murder freedom."
Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans. Garrison was the only public official to bring charges against some of the JFK assassination conspirators. For more from this devastating speech, see Jim Garrison's Summation at the JFK Murder Trial.
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt businesses and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today."
Theodore Roosevelt, Trust Buster and Environmentalist
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