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Historical Figures Quotes |
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such
an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions,
cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence
to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace |
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but
believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace
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American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their
German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they
left off, after 'the present unpleasantness' ceases.
Henry A. Wallace
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the
area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our
rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Henry A. Wallace
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Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because
it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small
and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace
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Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready
to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies
can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the
consumer inside the United States.
Henry A. Wallace
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Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service
to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the
power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed
to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.
Henry A. Wallace
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The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method
is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace
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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate
perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate
every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists
and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their
heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying
to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who
has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more
to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so
much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them
have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I
have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as
he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the
thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that
man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find
a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can
be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization
and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed,
given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly.
Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general
war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who
would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what
is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday
life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense
and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his
children smart.
H. L. Mencken
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with
larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
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