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“...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.”
― Mao Zedong

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

“It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”
― Mao Zedong

“Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973:
Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million.
U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer.
Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many.”
― Mao Zedong

“Now, however, the educational system has become the weapon of choice for modern liberals in their project of dismantling American culture.”
― Robert Bork

“Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? "The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes.... I will obey."3”
― William J. Bennett, From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989

“Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,”
― William J. Bennett, From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989

“and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court's reasoning.”
― William J. Bennett, From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989

“There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
― William J. Bennett, The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals

“The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter.”
― William J. Bennett, Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools

“Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.”
― William J. Bennett