Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, State of the Union Address — Second Bill of Rights (1944)
“Four spectres haunt the Poor — Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.”
Speech in Reading (1 January 1910)
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
As quoted in Men in Motion, Henry J. Taylor, Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York: NY, (1944) p. 59. Also quoted in As We Go Marching, John T. Flynn, New York: NY, Free Life Edition (1973) p. 154, first published 1944 https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/As%20We%20Go%20Marching_2.pdf <br class="br">Other remarks
Laurence Binyon book For the Fallen
"For the Fallen" (1914), fourth verse
'Condemn' is sometimes quoted as 'Contemn'. Both make sense in the context, but it was 'condemn' which was included in the first printing of the poem on page 9 of The Times of 21 September 1914. Binyon did not change it to 'contemn' when shown the proof of a later printing.
Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist
2021, Response to COP26 (November 2021) <br class="br">Source: Quoted in “‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’: Greta Thunberg sings at Cop26 – video” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2021/nov/02/you-can-shove-your-climate-crisis-up-your-arse-greta-thunberg-sings-at-cop26-video, The Guardian (2 November 2021)
Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Segment of a speech, held in a UKIP meeting on 21 February 2012. When Nigel Farage spoke about the austerity measures impleted into Greece - Greece being destroyed by EU fanatical ideology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFlYhUkO2uU&list=PL25613E6F90B320EC&index=9&feature=plpp_video <br class="br">2012
James Frazer book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 56, The Public Expulsion of Evils.
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Speech accepting the Republican Party Presidential nomination, Stanford University (11 August 1928)
Context: One of the oldest and perhaps the noblest of human aspirations has been the abolition of poverty. By poverty I mean the grinding by undernourishment, cold and ignorance and fear of old age of those who have the will to work. We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and [sic] we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this Nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate.
William McKinley (1843–1901) American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901)
First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1897).
1890s
“A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Source: The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Preamble, paragraph 1, line 1.