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QUOTES for today
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." -- Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 1743-1826.
"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian author, 1828-1910
"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us." -- Thich Nhat Hanh, Contemporary Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist and writer
"The Government will regard as its first and foremost duty to revive the spirit of unity and cooperation in the nation and to preserve and defend its basic principles of Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." --Adolph Hitler, My New World Order Proclamation, Berlin,February 1, 1933
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