Quotes

*Weekly/Monthly Quotes Archive*

	Answer: A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership together with belligerent nationalism. Question: What is Fascism?

	The Arab World: Yankee Doodle went to town Got there on a Sunday Found some people living there They were dead by Monday

	*James Madison:* "The people never give up their freedom except under some delusion."

	*Thomas Jefferson:* "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice will not sleep forever."

	*Adolf Hitler:* "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."

	Josef Stalin: "The people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything."

	*Ronald Reagan:* "Facts are stupid things."

	*Richard Nixon:* "Fighting for peace is like f~cking for virginity."

	*Theodore Roosevelt:* "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."

	Abraham Lincoln: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

	*Benjamin Franklin:* "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

	Woodrow Wilson: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance." Source: During the 1912 elections

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1/26 - 2/02	Paul Street: "Elections should be approached as occasions in the process of building deep, durable and richly textured movements for justice, peace, and high-intensity democracy based on the idea of equal policymaking influence for all people regardless of inherited distinctions of wealth, class, gender, race, and the like." Source: Dean, Democrats, and Democracy

	*Arnold Schwarzenegger:* "A certain amount of people are meant to be in control. Ninety-five percent of the people have to be told what to do, have to be given orders." *Source: The Education of a Bodybuilder*

12/21 - 12/27	Tacitus: Roman Senator and Historian (A.D. c.56 - c. 115): "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

12/14 - 12/20	*Adam Smith:* "The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatsoever."

12/7 - 12/13	*George Bernard Shaw:* "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

11/30 - 12/6	Voltaire: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

11/23 - 11/29	Issac Asimov: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Source: "Foundation"

11/16 - 11/22	Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

11/9 - 11/15	Thomas Paine: "A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right..." Source: Common Sense

11/02 - 11/08	*Winston Churchill:* "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

10/26 - 11/01	Steve Biko: "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

10/19 - 10/25	Plato: "This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." Source: The Republic

10/12 - 10/18	*John Adams:* "Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."

10/05 - 10/11	Stephen Vincent Benet: "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." Source: Litany for Dictatorships, 1935

09/28 - 10/04	*John Stuart Mill:* "One cannot say that all conservatives are stupid people, one can say that most stupid people are conservative."