Famous Quotes:  Fascism / Nazism
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   The quotations below are compiled by David Burns for the use of students and others interested in exploring these topics further.  The inclusion of a quote does not necessarily imply that Mr. Burns agrees with its point of view.

Fascism / Nazism

   The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.
    Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party leader, in Mein Kampf [My Struggle], 1933.

   The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
    Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party leader, in Mein Kampf [My Struggle], 1933.

   We have buried the putrid [rotting] corpse of liberty.
   Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist Party leader, 1934.

   War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it.
   Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist Party leader, 1935.














Against Fascism / Nazism

   The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned upon us.  Hitler knows he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
   If we can stand up to him all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad sunlit uplands; but if we fail, the whole world, including the United States and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister and perhaps more prolonged by the lights of a perverted science.
   Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
   Winston Churchill, English leader during World War Two, speech in the House of Commons, June, 1940.

   Our enemies are guided by a brutal cynicism, by unholy contempt for the human race.  We are inspired by a faith which goes back through all the years to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis: “God created man in His own image.”
   We on our side are striving to be true to that divine heritage.  We are fighting, as our fathers have fought, to uphold the doctrine that all men are equal in the sight of God.  Those on the other side are striving to destroy this deep belief and to create a world in their own image, a world of tyranny and cruelty and serfdom.
   President Franklin Roosevelt, Address to Congress, 1942.





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