1960s, The American Promise (1965)
Context: At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a man of God, was killed.
“Fate and freedom alike play a part in history; and there are times, as in wars and revolutions, when fate is the stronger of the two. Freedom”
the freedom of man and of nations — could never have been the origin of two world wars. These latter were brought about by fate, which exercises its power owing to the weakness and decline of freedom and of the creative spirit of man. Almost all contemporary political ideologies, with their characteristic tendency to state-idolatry, are likewise largely a product of two world wars, begotten as they are of the inexorability's of fate.
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 32
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[Introduction à l'histoire universelle, Michelet, Jules, Hachette, 1843, 9]
Introduction to Universal History , 1831, 1831
"Anti-Federalists Prophesied the End of Freedom" http://www.americandailyherald.com/pundits/ilana-mercer/item/anti-federalists-prophesied-the-end-of-freedom, American Daily Herald, December 9, 2013.
2010s, 2013
2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)
“When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.”
Variant: When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate." - Jacob Jankowski, Water For Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants
1910s, The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)
Programme of the World Revolution (1918), Ch. VII http://marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1918/worldrev/ch07.html