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Politics makes strange bed-fellows.

— Charles Dudley Warner

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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada (1889)

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Zedong

Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

Benito Mussolini

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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