Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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