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[F]ascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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The purpose of democratic statecraft is, or should be, to find the means of ordered liberty in a world condemned to everlasting change.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

Fascists were not conservative in any very meaningful sense... in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries.

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For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

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I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Bertrand Russell Unarmed Victory (1963)

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

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