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“A statesman needs imagination. Without it he will be arid and will in the long run effect nothing. Nor does he stand alone in this need. Without imaginative feelings, without poesy as part of his make-up, no one can achieve anything.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”
― C.S. Lewis, Present Concerns

“Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing
we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“The capitalists will go on doing what they are told. Capital is not God; it is only a means to an end”
― Benito Mussolini

“I say my feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. Not only as one who suffered, but as one who struggled for truth.

It points me to the man who, surrounded by only a few followers, saw clearly the corruption in his time and took the scourge to drive the money changers from the temple.

He fought against those who had poisoned the life of His people. In deepest conviction, I believe this was the struggle for which He shed His blood upon the Cross.

As a Christian, I do not believe it is my duty to allow my people to be deceived and exploited. It is my duty to fight for truth, for justice, and for the survival of our nation.

When I walk the streets and see men standing in lines for bread… when I see mothers struggling to feed their children, I would be no Christian but a devil if I felt no pity.

Like my Lord 2,000 years ago, I must turn against those who rob and exploit the poor.”
― Adolf Hitler

“When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.”
― Richard M. Nixon

“After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb ‘Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don’t trust an Armenian.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!”
― Andrew Jackson

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labour, nor labour without capital.”
― Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum

“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

“In the most democratic bourgeois republics, the real business of ‘state’ is performed behind the scenes and is carried on by the departments, the chancelleries, and the General Staffs. Parliament is given up to talk for the special purpose of fooling the ‘common people.”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

“The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold the generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone!”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“It is the passion for wealth, the will to be powerful no matter what. It is the frenzy to be honored. It is materialism.
It is the unscrupulous gratification of instincts, which have corrupted men — and through men, institutions.
The world is more and more preoccupied with banal, material, or simply animal joys. It maintains itself only by the principle of maximizing material wealth.

Each man lives only for himself and allows a domination of life — both within his own home and within the country — by a constant egoism which has converted men into hateful, embittered, greedy wolves, or corrupt and soulless half-men.”
― Leon Degrelle, The Burning Souls

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo

“If you wish to extinguish that enthusiasm which inspires great thoughts and impels men to noble enterprises—if you wish to render men's hearts cold and unfeeling—then substitute egotism in the place of generous and ardent patriotism.

If you wish to do this, only take away from the people their faith, and make them philosophers.”
― Joseph de Maistre, Letters on the Spanish Inquisition

“Capitalism has swallowed political interest. Now the world is only interested in money. People think of nothing but their own money and that of others'. Vanished are the days when all Europe paid close attention to the speeches of Peel or Disraeli; or even to those of Jaurès and Clemenceau! When political matters are discussed on the wireless, they listen to a sentence or two and then switch off. Nobody studies politics. The people do not want to rule, but to be ruled, and to be left in peace. Were there more great statesmen in Europe, there would be less partisanship.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“You can’t have it all. You can’t get huge tax breaks while children in this country go hungry. You can’t continue sending our jobs to China while millions are looking for work. You can’t hide your profits in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens while there are massive unmet needs on every corner of this nation. Your greed has got to end. You cannot take advantage of all the benefits of America if you refuse to accept your responsibilities.”
― Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In

“The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. ”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Never forget that the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.”
― Richard Nixon

“This pure toleration of sense and nonsense is justified by the democratic argument that no one — neither group nor individual — is in possession of the truth, or capable of defining what is right and wrong, good and bad. Therefore, all contesting opinions must be submitted to the people for their deliberation and choice.

But I have already suggested that the democratic argument implies a necessary condition: namely, that the people must be capable of deliberating and choosing on the basis of knowledge; that they must have access to authentic information; and that, on this basis, their evaluation must be the result of autonomous thought.”
― Herbert Marcuse, Repressive Tolerance

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Long live socialist Christ — Christ the carpenter, Christ the worker”
― Hugo Chávez Frías

“The State has the right and duty to prevent the destruction of its people by unjust economic power.”
― Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno: On Reconstructing the Social Order

“Nations recover rapidly from financial setbacks... Great revolutions are not political or economic... When specialists put the pieces together... the material revolution is accomplished.

The real revolution is far more complicated—one which brings together not the machinery of the state, but the secret life of every soul... It is about vices and virtues, impulses toward depth and toward weakness, the desperate hopes that are so dear to us.

What lies at the bottom of a gaze...? A hidden heart. A soul... The uncertain and troubled struggle toward happiness—this is the great drama of man.

And it is there, and there alone, that the real revolution takes place.”
― Leon Degrelle, The Burning Souls

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
― John Paul II

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
― Adolf Hitler