Saturday 9 August 2008

Birds of a feather, or holy humbug

"I believe that God wants me to be president."  - George W. Bush

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"I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany," - Hitler, Berlin, March,1936

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"God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands."
- George W. Bush


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"If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us." - Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg held on 3 Oct. 1937

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"Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." - George W. Bush

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"Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the f
oreign foe!" - Hitler, Nuremberg, Sept. 13, 1936.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Words fail me.
Up the Revolution......

Bodwyn Wook said...

I expect that a close study of them will, alas, reveal loads of equally egregious tub-thumping & nationalistic hokum in the speechs even of Winston Churchill....

anton said...

"I looked into his eyes . . ." said Bush! Didn't some guy named Neville say somethings similar about Hitler?

Unknown said...

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
-Aristotle

anton said...

phaedrus:
I liked the quote so much when I first saw it that I used it start off a recent posting titled "Looking Good while Being Bad!" You might like it. www.withoutgods.net/2008-08-06.htm