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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.

Madeleine Albright

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
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
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
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
Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Attitude Instagram Captions Life Philosophy
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
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
This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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Freedom Knowledge Politics Story
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
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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Easy Leadership Pain
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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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
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
Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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Determination Idea People
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
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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Believe Myself Person Success Yourself

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