[T-Bird45]

A work colleague sends Quotes of the Day to his client list and some of us, too. His current series is on freedom in the run-up to Independence Day and thought FR would enjoy this.

When researching the author, I found another quote that's been used by Helen Thomas to justify her hate of George W. Bush in a 2006 book. I believe I'll appropriate it for my own use:

"No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated National Will. ... When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And nobody will ever say 'Heil' to him, nor will they call him 'Führer' or 'Duce.' But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike bleat of 'O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna, Chief! Oh Kaaaay!'"

Dorothy Thompson, 1935, on the occasion of being forced out of Hitler's Germany for her writing.

[OneWingedShark]

Well, given the recent revelation of the covert NSA & IRS abuses, as well as the overt abuses of the DHS & TSA… maybe that quote does apply to Bush.

[ANGGAPO]

Most of us understand that Ms.Thomas was just one step from the looney bin, I doubt if she was ever taken as serious by anyone.

[cld51860]

“Once liberty is lost, it is lost forever.” - John Adams

[S.O.S121.500]

violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it’s the only answer