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Abraham Lincoln: I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4401



Abraham Lincoln: I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4403


General Douglas MacArthur: Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4404


General Smedley Butler: I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.... I could have given Al Capone a few hints... I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys.... I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.... I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers.... I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4405


Frederick Douglass: Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4406


Harry Truman: Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4407


Thomas Jefferson: Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4408


Gore Vidal: When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4409



Gore Vidal: The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4410


Franklin D. Roosevelt: In politics, nothing happens by accident, if it happens, you can be sure we planned it that way. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4411



Buckminster Fuller: Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4413



Marshall McLuhan: Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4415



Albert J. Beveridge: Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4417


Patrick Henry: The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4418






The American Heritage Dictionary: Fascism: 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. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4422



Plato: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4424


Michael Parenti: The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4425





George Orwell: We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4428


Joseph Goebbels: The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4429





Nelson Mandela: Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4433


Aleida Guevara March: When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4434


Jean-Paul Sartre: You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4435