The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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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 greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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