Does anyone have positive quotes from dictators?

[brainshrub]

You know, like something from Hitler where he says he's freeing the people of Poland. Or a quote from Stalin about how much he respects freedom? Or perhaps something from an banana-republic dictator about how much he hates corruption?

I'm in a debate with a Freeper who claims that Iraq is about Freedom, and he uses Bush quotes to back it up.

[leftstreet]

1. "You're doin a heckuva job, Brownie"

Seemed like a positive endorsement.
:)

[SkiGuy]

4. LOL!

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. So what?

Fuck 'em all. They're not worth your time or energy.

Besides, if you can't fight them with what you've got, your time'll be better spent figuring out ways to sabotage them.

:)

[brainshrub]

8. Normally I would agree.

I gave up trying to discuss anything with the Kool-Aid drinkers after the Schiavo controvercy.

However, this was a fairly thoughtfull reply, (for a Freeper) so I thought it was deserving of an answer.

You can read his comment here:

http://www.brainshrub.com/bruce-willis-iraq-movie#comment-391

[AllegroRondo]

3. I'm sure you can dig up lots of stuff from Hitler

the annexing of Austria, the Sudetenland, and Poland were all supposed to be wonderful for the people who lived there.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Here's Some Hitler Quotes

Just copied em.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler

Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.
Adolf Hitler

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
Adolf Hitler

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

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Adolf Hitler

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
Adolf Hitler

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler

The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. He also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die.
Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland.
Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Adolf Hitler

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
Adolf Hitler

What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
Adolf Hitler

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
Adolf Hitler

[brainshrub]

9. Those are good... but did Hitler say anything about Freedom?

[ticapnews]

6. Sudetenland, Rhineland, Austria

Didn't Saddam try to claim that he was freeing Kuwaitis from their government when he invaded?

[Cleita]

12. Good point.n/t

[Cleita]

7. I don't think those guys ever mentioned freedom.

Hitler's approach was to promote lebensraum or living space for Germans. The communists in Russia promised a worker's paradise, which Stalin used to consolidate his power.

As for your freeper, I liked what Stephanie Miller said about Bush bring the jackboots of freedom to Iraq. This is what you have to emphasize, the kind of freedom we are trying to bring to Iraq, really isn't freedom but colonization and the subsequent enslavement of a people to a foreign power.

[Sapphire Blue]

10. Here's a truthful quote from a dictator...

"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." - George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

[Hubert Flottz]

11. I sure do have positive quotes from a dictator...

"I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome." —George W. Bush


"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law." —George W. Bush, Tucson, Ariz.

Shrub sounds real positive about that!

"Wow! Brazil is big." —George W. Bush

"Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.'" —George W. Bush

"I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at." —George W. Bush

I'm POSITIVE he's an idiot!

[SkiGuy]

13. Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Hitler