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“Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.”

Political Politics Economic Economics Doctrine Liberalism Spheres Fascism

Book:Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions

Source: Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions

“Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”

Source: Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...

“The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.”

“In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.”

Men Wisdom Body Form Politics Individual Common Economy Universal Property Ill Doctrine Ease Liberalism Protest Midst Civilized Communist Definite Individual Freedom Subversion

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.”

“I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.”

Want Government Politics Separation Doctrine

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.”

School Form Political Politics Doctrine Symbols Abstract Visible Vulgar Fables Sects Imposing Esoteric

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.”

Believe May Politics Theology Doctrine Atonement Vicarious

Book:The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2

“One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.”

People Ifs Might Law Political Spirit Politics Letters Congress Separation Doctrine Legislature Imposition Separation Of Powers

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg