Scary Quotes

"[The war in Iraq is] a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times...a new world order can emerge."

    --George W. Bush, September 11th, 1999
    Bush spoke before Congress on September 11, 1990, delivering a speech which he entitled "Toward a New World Order". Addressing the subject of his Iraq War

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."

    --George W. Bush, December 18th, 2000, CNN Transcript

"There ought to be limits to freedom."

    --George W. Bush, May 21st, 1999

    George Bush's comments about a website ( www.gwbush.com) critical of him, at an Austin, TX  press conference.

"[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions."

    -- Henry Kissenger, April 19th 1994 World Affairs Council Press Conference, Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise their power from behind the
scenes."

    -- Justice Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court.

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insideous forces working from within."

    -- General Douglas MacArthur

"For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from it's original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government."

    -- President Harry Truman

"If we do not follow the dictates of our inner moral compass and stand up for human life, then his lawlessness will threaten the peace and democracy of the emerging new world order we now see, this long dreamed-of vision we've all worked toward for so long."

    -- George Bush, January 1991

"No, I'm not sure that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

    -- George Bush, Free Inquiry Magazine, Fall 88, Volume 8, Number 4, page 16

"The National Government ... regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality..."

    -- Adolph Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

    -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security."

    -- Louis Freeh, FBI Director, 1994

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will gladly offer up all of their rights."

    -- Unknown

"What luck for rulers, that men do not think."

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

    -- Adolph Hitler

"The art of leadership ... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention....The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."

    -- Adolph Hitler (Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 3 (1925))

"[There should be]  a heightened sense of awareness that a group of barbarians have declared war on the American people."

    -- George Bush, September 15th, 2001

    Associated Press, Bush Braces U.S., Military for War.  Bush urged Americans to go about their lives but cautioned the threat might not be over. He said

"The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it."

    -- Dr. Joseph Mengele

"We need honest, reasoned debate, and not fear-mongering.  To those . . . who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of goodwill to remain silent in the face of evil."

    -- Attorney General John Ashcroft, December 6, 2001

    Mr. Ashcroft delivered this remark as part of his opening statement yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. They explain perfectly why many people have concerns about his leadership in this uncertain time.

"The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror."

    -- Josef Goebbels, Master propagandist of the Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life for twelve years

"[T]he rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitive. In the long run basic results in influencing public opinion will be achieved only by the man who is able to reduce problems to the simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them in this simplified form, despite the objections of the intellectuals."

    -- Josef Goebbels, quoted in L.P. Lochner, ed., The Goebbels Diaries (London, 1948), p. 22

"The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan."

    -- Adolf Hitler, from Mein Kampf

"The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

    -- Joseph Stalin

"When in despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall."

    -- Mahatma. K. Gandhi

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

    -- P.J. O'Rourke

"The Americans have enough oil. Bush wants to distract attention from his domestic problems. It is a classical tactic that was used by Hitler..."

"If current American laws aimed at insider trading had been in force in 1980s when the president worked in the oil sector Bush would be sitting in prison today."

    -- Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, Germany's former Minister of Justice

    Implying that George Bush follows the Fuhrer's line when he wants to divert people-s attention from domestic problems and urges them on to war with Iraq.

"The unaware are unaware that they're unaware."

    --Unknown