#gains

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#authorities #central #fight #national #role

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#conference #december #decided #england #imperial

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#admired #against #family #fascism #father

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations. ↗

— John M. Ford

#audience #deliberately #dislike #expectations #goes

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #cultivate #employer #even #extensively

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox. ↗

— Tim Vine

#before #fact #fox #go #hunt

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. ↗

— Mort Walker

#army #attacking #both #both sides #experiences

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#common #country #discrimination #economic #groups

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#american #carefully #common #crack #cultivate

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#because #competition #democracy #distrust #energetic