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Fred A. Reed (born 1939) is a journalist, author and translator who has published and translated several books. He is a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, for his translations of works by Thierry Hentsch and Martine Desjardins, and received six further shortlisted nominations.

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The US no longer does decisions. It can neither stop the drug traffic nor legalize it. It can neither win wars nor abandon them, neither make money nor stop spending it, neither stop immigration nor assimilate the immigrants. Washington can beat its thumb with a hammer, yes, and notice that it hurts, but it can't stop beating its thumb. That would take a decision, and Washington doesn't do decisions.

Hurt, Immigration, Take, War, Wars, Winning

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

Accomplished, Esteem, Esteeming, Kids, Worth

In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

America, Civilization, Marxist, Obstacle, School, Suffrage

Though the Floundering Fathers didn't intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television.

Doubt, Father, Government, Intend, See, Television

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Almighty, Religion, See, Transcript, Want

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Book, Books, Lakes, Museum, Write, Writing

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Civilization, Men, Oil

Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

America, Bribes, Hill, Law, Legislation, Temples

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Children, Come, Hobbies, Peace, War

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Democracy, Imagine, Proper, Retain, Self

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

Hornets, Ideal, May, Organization, Think, Thinking

Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

Character, Class, Classes, Games, Low, Moral

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

Democracy, Regularly, Should, Stoop, Stoops, Wash