A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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