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But the Dean's laughable history of the pompous antics of the Lilliputians is a picture which describes the constitution of our present administration who are managing the critical affairs of the nation so ill that disaster is inevitable in many forms, seen and unseen.
Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919
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Truly the Lilliputians are a plague on all human interests, real patriotism, and capacity: always mischievous, always incapable, just the same now as when, in the eighteenth century, their type forced a peaceful and neutral Power into war because they refused to yield their fleet to them; always seeing things that do not exist, and foreboding perils that would never have come but for their dwarfish interference.
Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919
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Next to the success of "Tom Thumb" probably no like attraction has been so celebrated as the "Lilliputians," whose antics and wit so many
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The neocons saw in this episode a nation that was tied down by the Lilliputians.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The neocons saw in this episode a nation that was tied down by the Lilliputians.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The neocons saw in this episode a nation that was tied down by the Lilliputians.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The local Lilliputians find cheap but inventive ways of desecrating and disfiguring the body before cutting it up for souvenirs and finally rendering it down in big vats.
The Catastrophist 2010
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His smile grew larger as they surrounded him like Lilliputians eager to get a closer look at the warrior giant who had landed in their midst.
Rocky Kistner: A Green Football Giant Helps Kids Save the World Rocky Kistner 2011
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If someone, in this case the Commander-in-chief and the senior civilian command, doesn't shut down this dangerous kind of thinking soon, we'll find ourselves in the same situation of Gulliver-tied down by armies of little Lilliputians.
Gary Hart: Looking for War in All the Wrong Places Gary Hart 2011
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Like Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians, we seem tied down; unlike Gulliver, we have woven and tied the strings ourselves.
How a Bagram Detainee Foiled the Euro Terror Plot Michael B. Mukasey 2010
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