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...if I had been an Italian, I am sure I would have been entirely with you from the beginning to the end of your victorious struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.
Winston Churchill to Benito Mussolini, in January 1927
I do not deny that he is a very great man but he became a criminal when he attacked England.
Winston Churchill about Benito Mussolini, in the British Parliament 1940
Det där jävla Irakkriget kanske.
Jocke Berg, sångare i Hardcore Superstar, på frågan om det finns nåt de skulle vilja ändra på
Demokrati: betyder egentligen folkstyre, där de viktigaste elementen är att landet har yttrandefrihet, näringsfrihet, respekt för äganderätt, frihandel och ett stabilt och förutsägbart lagverk som beskyddar individer mot kriminalitet genom ett effektivt polis-och rättsväsende.
MUF-startade föreningen "Amerikas Vänner" definierar ordet demokrati, och hoppar för enkelhetens skull över begreppet rösträtt
USA har mer än något annat land stått upp för idén om universella mänskliga rättigheter och det liberala demokratiidealet. Genomgående har amerikansk utrikespolitik under efterkrigstiden präglats av övertygelsen om demokratins företräde framför diktaturen, och att i den kampen måste man välja sida. Den amerikanska utrikespolitiken har även gång på gång visat sig villig att sätta kraft bakom orden och visa äkta solidaritet.
Christofer Fjellner, ordförande MUF
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E.B. White
...the good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all things considered, one would not normally choose to go. But, we go where the business is.
Dick Cheney, later Vice President of the U.S.A., in 1998
De första 10 åren efter perestrojkan var en tid då existerande tillgångar delades upp. Nu är det tid att bygga nya. De senaste 10 åren har rysk affärsverksamhet bestått i att roffa åt sig tillgångar och pengar. Nu är affärer något som svarar mot marknadsbehov. Under de första 10 åren av rysk kapitalism helgade ändamålet alla medel. Nu betyder medlen och ryktet mycket. Efter 10 svåra år av kapitalackumulation är landet redo att gå framåt.
Anatolij Tjubais, kallad den ryska chockterapins fader
Were [the Allies] at war with Soviet Russia? Certainly not; but they shot Soviet Russians at sight. They stood as invaders on Russian soil. They armed the enemies of the Soviet Government. They blockaded its ports, and sunk its battleships. They earnestly desired and schemed its downfall.
Winston Churchill 1929, on the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1917
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the US government transformed the inception of the atomic age into the most mythologized event in American history. These exhilarating, excessive utterances depicted a profoundly altered universe and produced a reorientation of thought that influenced the behavior of nations and changed the outlook and the expectations of the inhabitants of this planet.
Stewart Udall, former US Secretary of the Interior, in his book "The Myths of August"
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender ... My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children...
Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff for President Harry Truman
During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, attempting to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'...
General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander Europe during World War II and later US president, describing his reaction upon having been told that atomic bombs would be used on Japanese cities
I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced [to Secretary of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'....
General Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe during World War II and later US president, on the atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Jag tycker att alla utlänningar borde sluta blanda sig i Iraks inre angelägenheter. Dom som vill hjälpa till är välkomna. Dom som vill förstöra är inte välkomna.
Paul Wolfowitz, biträdande försvarsminister i USA
We made a heavy raid in the latter month on Dresden, then a centre of communication of Germany's Eastern Front.
Winston Churchill on the attack on Dresden, in his wartime memoirs
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.
Winston Churchill in 1937, about the Palestinians
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