How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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 real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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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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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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