| |
Nya citat 2005-07-22
Democracy: A government of the masses. ... Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights. ... Result is demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
from the U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25, 1928 
Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.
Lester Maddox, then governor of Georgia, on why Georgia should not create a consumer protection agency
We're well aware of the male homosexual problem in this country, which is of course minor, but to our certain knowledge there is not one lesbian in England.
Lord Chamberlain of England
Culture is necessary, but it must be alive and not too much of it.
Virginio Gayda, official in Fascist Italy
I did not want to tire the population, because otherwise it would have stayed up too late.
Nicolae Ceausescu, explaining why television viewing was restricted to only two hours a night. Electricity was usually cut off during night hours.
I don't think the American public wants to be bothered with the what, when, and how of lasers in space and things like that. Whether the technology will work or how much it will cost — these are peripheral arguments.
Rick Sellers, executive director of the Coalition for the SDI
It is necessary for technical reasons that these warheads should be stored with the top at the bottom, and the bottom at the top. In order that there may be no doubt as to which is the top and which is the bottom, for storage purposes, it will be seen that the bottom of each head has been labeled with the word TOP.
British Admiralty instruction dealing tuith the storage of warheads and torpedoes
The caribou love it. They rub against it and they have babies. There are more caribou in Alaska than you can shake a stick at.
George Bush Sr, then Vice-President, on the Alaska pipeline
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why toxic wastes should be exported to Third World countries
America's lands may be ravaged as a result of the actions of the environmentalists.
James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under Reagan
ff we didn't have bonuses, we wouldn't have had anybody working for us.
Drexel Burnham Lambert spokesperson, explaining why the company gave over $195 million in bonuses just before it filed for bankruptcy
I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language there isn't even a word for freedom.
President Ronald Reagan, overlooking the word svoboda
Gifts are positively corruptive. ... [Free air fares] are harmless, or at least only potentially corruptive.
Lee Wilbur, staff aide on the U.S. House Appropriation Transportation subcommittee, explaining why it was okay for him to accept a free (first class) round-trip flight to Spain
I would categorize them more as gifts.
Aerospace manufacturer Lockheed's chief operations officer, trying to explain about the over $7 million paid to government officials from Holland and to an influential Japanese right-winger
I didn't want it to be too big. It would have made it look like we bought the decision.
Jake Jacobsen, former Associated Milk Producers lawyer, testifying to a federal jury on the $10,000 he gave to former Treasury Secretary John Connally for help on milk prices
We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple.
James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, referring to an advisory group in his agency
Sometimes [they] don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Evangelist wife Tammy Faye Balder, preaching about the poor
Your commitment and compassion, your humanitarian principles and your interest in protecting individual liberty and freedom have made an outstanding contribution to furthering the cause of human dignity.
Joseph Califano, Jr., then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, in a letter of reference for cult leader and mass murderer Jim Jones
Where fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes.
Barry Goldwater, senator from Arizona, speaking before the National Interfraternity Conference
If I listened to him [Michael Dukakis] long enough I would be convinced that we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
President Ronald Reagan
In every country the Communists have taken over, the first thing they do is outlaw cockfighting.
John Monks, Oklahoma state representative, arguing against a bill that would make cockfighting illegal in the state
Mars is essentially in the same orbit. Mars is somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Vice-President Dan Quayle
Down with the greedy Stamp Bourgeoisie! Long Live the Red Philatelic international, leader and guardian of the world's working class philatelists ind numismatists! Proletarian stamp and coin collectors, Unite!
From the front page of the 1924 Russian magazine for stamp collectors, the "Red Philatelist". This manifesto was published in English, French, German and Russian.
In the whole history of the world, whenever a meat-eating race has gone to war against a non-meat-eating race, the meat eaters won. It produces superior people. We have the books of history.
Senator Carl Curtis (R-Neb.) during a debate on banning DES as a food additive for livestock, 1975
What you're not recognizing is that the original proposal was significantly higher.
U. S. Air Force major general, defending the purchase of tool kit which included $1,496 pliers. Boeing's original asking price was $5,096.
They're multipurpose. Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off.
Pratt & Whitney spokesperson explaining why the company charged the Air Force nearly $1,000 for a pair of pliers
We all know that African countries used to have a tradition of eating their own adversaries. We don't have such a tradition or process or culture and I believe the comparison between Africa and Russia is not quite just.
Vladimir Putin, answering critics of Russias human rights record in 2005
Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.
George Wallace, Alabama governor and then presidential candidate, during a campaign speech to a largely black audience
One problem that we've had even in the best of times ... is the people who are sleeping on the grates. The homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.
President Ronald Reagan, on "Good Morning America", January 31, 1984
I suppose [we could have one], but the actual writing of a statute might be a little difficult.
CIA Director William Colby, on congressional suggestions for a law barring political assassinations
Maybe we should not have humored them ... [when they asked to live on reservations]. Maybe we should have said, "No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us."
President Ronald Reagan during a trip to Moscow, when a student asked him about U.S. treatment of Native Americans
...airplanes may be used for the purpose of keeping rioters off roofs by means of machine gun fire ... Infantry should and will invariably constitute the major part of any command employed in suppressing domestic disorders ... armored cars will be especially valuable in riot duty...
General Douglas MacArthur, "Military Aid in Disturbances" (1935), in which he also comes out against the use of blanks, as an "admission of weakness"
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
Lester Maddox, ex-governor of Georgia
Here at the ministry we have other, more urgent, situations to deal with.
Jorge Luna of the Peruvian Labor Ministry after hearing that gold miners in the jungle were enslaving thousands of children
The interests of the employers and the employed are the same nine times out of ten — I will even say ninety-nine times out of ten.
Lord Curzon, British statesman and Viceroy of India from 1898 to 1905, Oxford University Chancellor, Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech, and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!" You never hear a real American talk like that.
Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1938
The rights you have are the rights given to you by Committee. We will determine what rights you have and what rights you have not got.
J. Parnell Thomas, House Un-American Affairs Committee, to a witness
I desire what is good. Therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor.
George III of England
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
Louis Nel, former Deputy Minister of Information for South Africa
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
General William Westmoreland on why the media should be muzzled in wartime
I Let me tell you that tolerance is one thing, intolerance another. To be a person intolerant of another person's right to have different views is my idea of tolerance, that is, until that person endeavors to make a public issue of his views.
Congressman Albert Johnson of Washington
Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.
Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), discussing television shows about the nuclear war
This kind of weapon can't help but have an effect on the population as a vhole.
President Ronald Reagan on nuclear weapons
- Do you think there could be a battlefield exchange without having buttons pressed all the way up the line?
- Well, I would — if they realized that we — if we went back to that stalemate, only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or our strike at them after their first strike would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that would hold the them off.
Ronald Reagan
At this point, I would like to emphasize that our emergency planning [for a nuclear attack by the Soviets] is predicated on the idea that it is possible for nation to survive, recover, and win and that our way of life, including free enterprise, the oil industry, and Socony Mobil Oil Company, can survive, recover, and win with it.
Maxwell S. McKnight, security adviser to Mobil, speaking in 1963
Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous.
Winston Churchill, in 1939
In fact, living standards within the first year following either attack [UNCLX or CIVLOG) could compare favorably with those enjoyed in this country in the late 1950s. The net effect of the attack indicates a reduction in per capita value-added of approximately $660.
Two economists speaking at a Fort Monroe, Virginia, seminar sponsored by Civil Defense in 1967. A UNCLX (300 megaton) attack would kill half the population of the United States.
They [the bombs] are aimed exclusively at military targets. ... Unfortunately there are some civilians around these targets.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, former President and general, standing up for the way the United States was handling bombing in North Vietnam
We'll have a recording broadcast a fire fight, mortars exploding, bullets flying, Vietnamese screaming. ... There's nothing offensive about it.
A spokesperson for "Vietnam Village," a 1976 Florida tourist theme park that reproduced a Vietnamese village during the war, complete with 56 Vietnamese refugees playing the parts of the villagers
If you think the football game was exciting, wait until you hear the report rom Tom Aspell from Amman, Jordan.
Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman, just after an NFL game had been broadcast, in his lead-in to a story about the Gulf War
In a way, we're a kind of Peace Corps.
Training director of the Fort Bragg Green Beret Center in 1969
Some of them have marvelous minds, those black people over there.
Director of the United States Information Agency Charles Z. Wick, after a 1983 trip to Africa
You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and as far as I am concerned, happy campers you vill always be.
Vice-President Dan Quayle, addressing a group of Samoans during a Pacific trip
I didn't know that guy was a nigger.
Senator James Eastland to his aide after welcoming Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, reported in New Times
It was necessaiy to destroy the village in order to save it.
An American officer in Vietnam in a 1968 report on the razing of Vietamese village Ben Tre
Should the Red hordes continue to pour across the Yalu, it might not only render impossible the resumption of our offensive, but conceivably could eventuate in a movement in retrograde.
General Douglas MacArthur in a press conference, commenting on the situation in Korea, tries to avoid the word "retreat"
Everybody should rise up and say, "Thank you, Mr. President, for bombing Haiphong."
Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell, addressing a Republican Women's Conference
|
|
|
