If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTUntil I am carried out, I will carry on.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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 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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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