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The 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.

Madeleine Albright

Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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Determination Goodness Win
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Force Time Voice
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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Democracy Government
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
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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Book Himself Innovation Oneself Pain Politics
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
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
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
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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Hell Help Important Myself Place Thinking Woman Woman Empowerment
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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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Emotional Hate Policy
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself
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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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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Compassionate Human Oneself World
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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The 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.

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The 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.

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