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 ALBRIGHTMcCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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