“So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.” WorldHas BeensWarStatesRunningPoliticsNationsProcessEconomyDemocracyChangedPropertySocialismWar Of The WorldsLiberalismConcentrationElitesSocialistSecond World War Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.” WorldGivingWarEndsCountryProblemRealityAmericaChanceDemocracyWar Of The WorldsGermanyJapanWorld War IiWorld War IBayonets Book:Letters to a Young Conservative Source: Letters to a Young Conservative
“Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.” WorldBelieveWellsPersonsWarTodayDemocracyThis WorldSafeCapitalismWar Of The WorldsCapitalistWorld War IWorld Today Author:Rose Pastor Stokes
“We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.” MenWorldWarWealthUnited StatesDemocracySkillsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IArsenal Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsWarHomeBlackRolesGrowing UpDemocracyGrowingMovementVictoryChineseWar Of The WorldsBlack PeopleWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The Philippines and the U.S. have had a strong relationship with each other for a very long time now. We have a shared history. We have shared values, democracy, freedom, and we have been in all the wars together in modern history, the World War, Second World War, Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, now the war on terrorism.” WorldLongHas BeensWarTogetherValuesStrongDemocracyModernColdLong TimeTerrorismWar Of The WorldsVietnamCold WarKoreaSecond World WarWar On TerrorPhilippinesWar On TerrorismDemocracy FreedomModern HistoryShared ValuesStrong Relationship Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
“Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.” PeopleWorldFirstsWarPoliticalDemocracyModelsScientistWar Of The WorldsGermanyFirst World War Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” WorldHas BeensWarForceNationsHoursMemoriesDarkEnemyDemocracyGenerationsSacrificeSavedSecureAround The WorldErasTriumphWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IPearlsVeteranTestedHarborsPledgeHomelandNew GenerationArmed ForcesSaluteNew EraOur VeteransDark Hours Author:George W. Bush
“After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger.” WorldFeelsShouldTryingFirstsHumansWarRunningDemocracyCuttingRightsDangerRedTradeHuman RightsCodeWar Of The WorldsGermanyChickensBurnedTowersEmergenciesGangLegislatureSuspendedWorld TradeFirst World War Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.” IfsWorldSaidWarEndsStatesDemocracyMembersUnionsWestEastRuinsWar Of The WorldsContinentsStretchingEuropean UnionSecond World WarPortugalLiberal DemocracyEstonia Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in workplace trade unions doesn't mean they aren't in associations with other people - work-based, place-based, culture-based, sport-based, faith-based - there's a bit of an old rainbow coalition argument.” PeopleWorldMeanWarCultureSocialBitsSportsSimpleDemocracyArgumentTradeUnionsPostsWar Of The WorldsOrganizedLabourAssociationRainbowWorkplaceCoalitionsSecond World WarFragmentedTrade UnionsFaith BasedSocial Democracy Author:Duncan Green
“The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.” WorldKindTwoWarStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyMajorsUnionsWorkersPopulationScalesEnormousAll KindsPropagandaWar Of The WorldsTargetFactoriesOffensiveInterventionScholarshipSecond World WarTakeoversGovernment Intervention Author:Noam Chomsky