Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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 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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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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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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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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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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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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