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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFirst of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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 more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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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.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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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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