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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTHistorian 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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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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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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Fascism 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.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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