Michael A. Ledeen quotes
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“Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.”
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“In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still...”
-- Michael A. LedeenSource : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely And Important Today As Five Centuries Ago”, p.90, Macmillan
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“They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.”
-- Michael A. LedeenSource : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.”, p.213, Macmillan
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“Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.”
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“Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'”
-- Michael A. LedeenSource : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely And Important Today As Five Centuries Ago”, p.173, Macmillan
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“The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.”
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“There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision  global democratic revolution  into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.”
-- Michael A. LedeenSource : "The End Of The Left's History". www.cbsnews.com. December 2, 2004.
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“So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.”
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“I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are a warlike people and that we love war... What we hate is not casualties but losing.”
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“China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.”
-- Michael A. Ledeen
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