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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.

Madeleine Albright

The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Force Time Voice
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Mindset Myself Phone Remember
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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Force Future Nation
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Leadership Oppression Promise
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World
A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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Name Oppression Rule
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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Ability Different Leadership Understand View
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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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Government Herself Home
Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Attitude Instagram Captions Life Philosophy
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Beginning Human Issue
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics

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