“I think there's a Trojan horse lurking in the weeds, ready to pull a fast one on the American people, and I simply am not going to let that happen.”
Remarks to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, August 6, 1992
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James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) writer and activist
Brothers, st. 3.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.”
Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author
Letter (20 August 1959), as quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Rebecca West: A Life (1987), Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206
“Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.”
Equo ne credite, Teucri.
quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 48–49; Trojan priest of Apollo warning against the wooden horse left by the Greeks.
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
Source: The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1952), p. 357
Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer
Source: The Running Dream
“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency.'”
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.
p. 357
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1952)
“The emigres often work as a Trojan horse, lobbying on your behalf.”
Jagdish Bhagwati (1934) economist
On the benefits of emigration of intelligent and skilled workers from India to other nations, as quoted in "Return Passage to India: Emigres Pay Back" by Celia W. Dugger, in The New York Times (29 February 2000) http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/29/world/return-passage-to-india-emigres-pay-back.html?pagewanted=all; also cited in: Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East https://books.google.nl/books?id=3bNEcyRxk3oC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=charles+leadbeater++%22from+west+to+east%22&source=bl&ots=5P_cDPHVZF&sig=GfkXHeh-xNDhko5-h2NqD67zP5E&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF_afS-qzLAhXHzxQKHUcKBEoQ6AEIKDAB#v=onepage&q=Bhagwati&f=false (2010), p. 71 <br class="br">Context: The emigres often work as a Trojan horse, lobbying on your behalf. They use external opportunities to succeed prodigiously in different occupations. And they can bring their skills and funds home to assist the country in its economic takeoff.