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“If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.”

“We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.”

Ifs Giving Order Enemy Democracy Stupid Bears Weapons Affair Fascism Tickets Parliament Salary Flocks Arsenal

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.”

Christianity Enemy Democracy

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be able to deal with a ruthless terrorist enemy that uses civilians as a human shield without having some incidental civilian casualties.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win”

Ifs Art War Government Success Winning Enemy Democracy One Thing Military Succeed Worried We Will Win

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.”

Men Should Certain Enemy Democracy Essentials Inspired Proof Good Life Compelled

Book:Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

Source: Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

“You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.”

Ifs Ideas Enemy Democracy Failing Tests Critical Abandon Destroying Making Peace Destroying You

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people.”

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Book:For My Legionaries

Source: For My Legionaries

“Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.”

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Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.”

Enemy Democracy Terrorist Democracies Have

Author:Paul Johnson

“Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.”

Needs Helping Young Fighting Enemy Democracy Policy

Author:George W. Bush

“May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy”

May Quality Enemy Democracy Security Devil March Quality Of Life Crushed Skulls Goodwill God Is With You

Author:Ted Nugent

“Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.”

Ifs Men Wells May Said Country Facts America Enemy Democracy Ideals Treats Tragedy Aim Curse Our Society Iron Respectable Vacuums

Author:H. L. Mencken

“We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory, a new generation of our Armed Forces goes forward against new enemies in a new era. Once again, we pledge to defend freedom, secure our homeland, and advance peace around the world. Americans have been tested before, and our Nation will triumph again.”

“Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.”

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Book:Notes On Democracy

Source: Notes On Democracy

“[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world.”

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Author:George Will

“Instead of being a Woodrow Wilson democracy promoter we ought to hunt down our enemies and kill ISIS rather than creating opportunities for ISIS to take control of new countries.”

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Author:Ted Cruz