Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFirst of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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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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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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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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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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