Comments on: Despots Say the Darndest Things http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: js290 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29675 js290 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:22:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29675 Another one from Stalin:

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

]]> By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29218 UCrawford Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:44:10 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29218 Actually, I’ll retract that one…someone pointed out to me that was an inaccurate attribution from Woodward’s book. Apparently, a widespread one. Sorry.

So I’ll add this one from Brainy Quote instead

“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” -George W. Bush

]]> By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29215 UCrawford Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:37:25 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29215 “We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of this great nation.” -George W. Bush, Bush At War (Bob Woodward)

]]> By: T F Stern http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29214 T F Stern Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:18:46 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29214 One line wisdom can indeed show the agenda of some folks.

]]> By: N. Isenhardt http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29213 N. Isenhardt Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:49:36 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29213 “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Vladimir Lenin

This one makes me think of all the people who still believe there was any meaningful connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

““How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”
Adolf Hitler

Ummm… THAT is the best quote I’ve heard in a while. It explains pretty much all of our country’s problems.

Good reading! Thanks!

]]> By: Stephen Littau http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29172 Stephen Littau Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:03:02 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29172 Trumpetbob:

That line by Hillary Clinton along with the rest of her speech is actually what inspired me to write this. I wanted to see if any of the readers would pick up on that and you did not disappoint. I also had the same thought as you on the Castro quote. I’m sure that wasn’t a very recent quote. I wonder if he has since changed his mind?

Tarran:

I’m glad you brought the founding of the U.S. Dept. of Education as well. Boortz brought that up on his show the other day and it’s also in his latest book. It’s frightening how the spirit of the founders of the Dept. of Education almost exactly matches that of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. The Lenin quote is especially chilling considering Hillary Clinton wants government funded preschool to get into the children’s heads at an even earlier age.

]]> By: tarran http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29166 tarran Thu, 31 May 2007 23:08:22 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29166 John D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board

In our dreams…people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present educational conventions [intellectual and character education] fade from our minds, and unhampered by tradition we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, educators, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is very simple… we will organize children… and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.

The students of the guys who wrote that founded the U.S. Dept of Education.

]]> By: trumpetbob15 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29162 trumpetbob15 Thu, 31 May 2007 21:52:35 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/31/despots-say-the-darndest-things/#comment-29162 “We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”
- Hillary Clinton

(By the way, I like the Castro quote about not letting a man live “when he begins to deteriorate.” Too bad we are still waiting for them to pull the plug on him.)

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