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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.

Madeleine Albright

Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Destruction Enough Hide Nation Powerful Pretend Secure Weapon
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Character Reputation Yourself
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Ourselves Purpose
It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Democracy Freedom Magic Security
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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Creation Difficult Effort Myself Need Team Thinking View
Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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Death Growth Mindset
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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Freedom Knowledge Politics Story
Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student

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