Quotes Of The Day

It's a twofer today! Mostly because these are both so chilling and I couldn't decide betwixt them...

There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th-century idea, and we're trying to transition into the 21st century, and we're going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

-- General Wesley K. Clark, Supreme Commander of NATO, interview with CNN, April 1999 (link)

And...

"In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."

Karl Marx, speaking in 1848 to the Democratic Association of Brussels

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