Nationalism & Treason Quotes
The “old” writing to which he was referring was a quotation from Roman Poet Horace. See {589060}.
He was referring to views like those of Stephen Decatur {599442} and Carl Schurtz {33636}.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
He works were banned and he was banished by both the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War where he tried to be a mediator and was present at the Paris Peace Talks. As late as 2007 he was still not allowed into Vietnam.
Ironically, the fascist organizations that did form in America did just that. The American Firsters claimed patriotism motivated them to support Hitler and Father Coughlin and his fascist movement was his own version of Christianity—one which the Roman Catholic Church was so opposed to that they prohibited him from appearing on the radio with his virulent preaching. He was one of several who “hijacked” American Christianity not unlike the way radical Muslims would later in the century hijack Islam.
The “necklaces” Mandela referred to were car tires filled with gasoline.
This line was used in the WPA Federal Theater Project. The play was closed down, because the State Department was distressed that the Federal Theater quoting heads of State might be insulting to the world leaders. Mussolini was another character in the play and he was depicted as the boorish thug that he turned out to be. It was that which offended the government officials who closed the show before it could open. FDR used a similar line 6 years later. See {32529} . Dolores Ibarruri in the Spanish Civil War is quoted with a similar phrase at about the same time. See {604321}
This was the intellectual basis of the famous speech by Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race—see related quote.
This is pne of the most famous quotations in all of Canadian Politics.
At the time military drumheads were made of the hide of animals. As the idea is gross to most of us today, it was to his Bohemian compatriots. The metaphor of using his remains to help even in such a simple and lowly way was dramatic patriotism in those days as it would be today.
