Don't know about the nation but the evildoing corporations will never affect King George's soul, that' s for sure. Reston is right about words not being responsible for their source. It is also important that even the illiterate at least know who Chomsky is. Another thought we should consider is becoming or trying to become the world's police since we are the world's real power-- a police force for equality and justice instead of rampant greed.

Some people need to read Spong's "Sins of the Scripture.' Learn a little about the Bible besides the brayings of the special interest preachers.

The best of philosophers and historians (including the Durants)realize that morality and ethics came before any religion. Religion developed as a way of enforcing ethical behavior and went downhill from there. Trotsky was one of many who realized the truth.

One of the most cogent quotations in some time. Most truths were born as heresy.

Having just learned there are now more than 40,000 service people who have risked prison and livelihood by deserting the war-for-greed in Iraq, Vonnegut's statement rings truer than ever. Our service people are like toys all right for the Cheney-Rumsfeld gang, and our media is the Santa Claus who produces them.

Reston, VA, is right again. Thanks for a fine reply.

How really sad is the fact that only two out of 11 replies exhibit any real understanding of this quote.

Where are any quotations on the other side of the argument?

Right on the mark for A of Reston.

Heston had almost as little brain power as George Bush.

Reston, Virginia, has it right.

My dad used to read Westbrook Pegler every week in the Fort Worth Press. He was duped as so many were and obviously still are. He was the American fascist supreme.

Like so much nonsense Rand wrote, this has no meaning in and of itself.

Not to legalize drugs is as stupid as prohibitiion was. The NIJ is totally right.

The time has long come but the patriots, many of the finest and virtuous citizens who might in the past have come to the rescue have been insidiously deceived by a controlled and manipulated media to believe just the opposite of the truth. The truth will set us free, but it must first be recognized.

Benson is partly right. America may well be destroyed and if so it will be through ignorance and being "lulled away,' but it will not be by the ones Benson is suggesting, but by the corporate controlled government and press who sell our young men to give their lives and our citizens to give their and their children's and grandchildren's labor to further fatten the fat-cats' immense wealth.

I. F. Stone said it too---something to the effect that ALL governments lie and all reporters should be aware of that. When attacking these lies more people should be aware that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

So????

Such a positive response to the drivel of Ayn Rand's fascist meanderings portends a sad future for this country. Americans' minds have been so brainwashed over the many years that rational thought is scarce. If only people knew real history we wouldn't have responses like these.

Not to mention defeating two different armies at two different times of the all-powerful Persians who outnumbered them many times over.

Mark Twain once said that should you find yourself in accord with majority opinion you shoud rethink your position.

I can't imagine humankind could take it forever, but I can certainly see Cheney's picking up George's boots and stamping them on any face he chooses until the illiterati wake up.

Joe expresses himself well.

Mr. Editor, you have either made a bad mistake or you are lying. Yes, I wrote those words but it was definitely not for the quote it is attributed to. I am not so stupid or forgetful that I would make completely contradictory reflections on the same idea. I would appreciate it if you would make this clear on tomorrow's edition for those who commented previously and will not have the opportunity to read my reply.

WHOA! I did not write the words above my name on this quotation. It was made MONTHS ago re another quote. I DO NOT appreciate a mistake of this kind. My response to Carnegie's quote is: there is much truth here but llibraries are not the best agency for improving the masses. That agency should be better textbooks in schools and a truly free press, of which we have neither in this country any more. It is not the mass who will use a library and it is they who are most in need of truth. The aspiring will seek it out and libraries provide that great treasure, but it is the average human who needs greater ease of learning truth.