Francisco Franco Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no Communism.”
-- Francisco Franco

Source : "Francisco Franco : The Times and the Man" by Joaquin Arraras, (p. 159), 1938.

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“We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.”
-- Francisco Franco

Source : "Spain: Voters Say 'S". content.time.com. June 27, 1977.

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“I am responsible only to God and history.”
-- Francisco Franco

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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“There will be no communism.”
-- Francisco Franco

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“Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.”
-- Francisco Franco

Source : Victory speech in Madrid, May 19, 1939.

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“You must sacrifice every thought, very ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.”
-- Francisco Franco

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“We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.”
-- Francisco Franco

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“The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land.”
-- Francisco Franco

Source : "Masonry and Communism" by Jakin Boor (the alias of Francisco Franco) in the journal "Arriba" (December 14, 1946); later quoted in Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurua "Franco: A Biography" (p. 71), 1985.

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“A Homeland, A State, A Leader.”
-- Francisco Franco

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“I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.”

“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”

“How should they answer?”

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.

“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”

“Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him”

“All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.”

“[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.136, Random House

“Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.”