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| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
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| "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." |
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| "Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State." |
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| "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." |
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| "The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era." |
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Mikhail Gorbachev.
(1931-) President, USSR and 1990 Nobel Prize-Winner for Peace |
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| "The peace of Versailles lacked moral validity from the start. The second World War was, in large part, a repeat performance of the first...Germany fought specifically in the second war to reverse the verdict of the first and to destroy the settlement which followed it. Her opponents fought, though less consciously, to defend that settlement...If one asks the rather crude question, `what was the war about?' the answer for the first is: `to decide how Europe should be remade,' but for the second merely: `to decide whether this remade Europe should continue.' The first war explains the second and, in fact, caused it, in so far as one event causes another." |
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A.J.P. Taylor
[Alan John Percivale] (1906-1990)
English Historian and Author |
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| "[The national bank is] dangerous to the liberty of the American people because it represented a fantastic centralization of economic and political power under private control." |
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| "Fascism...believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace..War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it...It may be expected that this will be a century of authority, a century of the Left, a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism (Liberalism always signifying individualism), it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism, and hence the century of the State...For Fascism, the growth of Empire, that is to say, the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite is a sign of decay and death." |
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| "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." |
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| "All warfare is based on deception." |
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| Make yourselves Sheep and the Wolves will eat you |
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| "Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We wouldn't let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" |
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| "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." |
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| "[W]e are now passing into a period in which wars--hot, cold, or phony, but mainly cold and phony--are being used to an increasing extent as the basic instrument of domestic political strategy in order to consolidate the power of the class or party in office, to extend and retain tenure of office, to maintain prosperity and full employment and to avert depressions. The real enemy is not nations or forces outside the borders, but parties and classes within the country that are antagonistic to the party and class which hold power." |
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| "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes." |
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| "There is no instance of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare." |
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| "...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today can grasp such nuances. Too bad, The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister." |
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| "This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual." |
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| "It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole...that above all, the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man." |
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| "Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacificsts for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." |
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| "The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood." |
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| "Our government is not to be maintained or our Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several states...its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves...; not in binding the States more closely to the center." |
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| "If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist." |
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| "Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to." |
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| Life came cheap in the world of 1945. The Anglo-Americans at Dresden had slaughtered thousands of women and children in air raids that had no discernable military puropse |
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| Who controls the past now controls the future who controls the present now controls the past |
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| No matter what political reason is given for war the underlying reason is always economic |
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| During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act |
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| When Governments fear the people their is liberty when people fear the government there is tyranny |
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