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At times when tyranny threatens, there must be - and always have been - voices that defy the corruption of words and insist that, as you put it "all voices count" - not just the tyrant's. For the corruption of words manifests the hubris of false omniscience.
For your courage and forthrightness, for following in the footsteps of Joseph Welch, Woodward, Bernstein and "Deep Throat" - among others - I thank you.
Below are statements that speak to the issues you raised. I thought they might of interest, and some use.
Again, my thanks.
"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ... Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell
"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." Thomas Jefferson
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. John Adams.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy,
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