Robert M. La Follette Quotes
While reform by the ballot is slow and discouraging, ... in a country where every citizen has the ballot—if there is not enough intelligence to use it to reform the government, would there be intelligence enough successfully to conduct a real democratic government—after they had established it by force.
Robert M. La Follette, 1855-1925, Governor of Wisconsin (Republican), U.S. Senator (Republican, WI), Presidential Candidate (Progressive), Senate speech, January 16, 1919
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Tamoyo ceased publication in 1823. It’s name comes from the name of an indigenous Indian tribe. A region of Brazil has been given the same name.
The Turkish revolution was by historical standards relatively bloodless as compared especially with other republican revolutions like the United State and France. However, the revolution that brought Ataturk to power was a relatively mild one in terms of the immediate changes that unlike many revolutions which produced instant radical change. In Turkey, the radical change took place in the years after the revolution when Ataturk with hardly any bloodshed produced compulsory public secular education, scientific elevation in society, separation of mosque and state, gender equality including universal voting, change to western dress, elimination of the caliphate, speech and press freedom, and many others including changing the entire language to use the Latin alphabet instead of Arabic. No nation in history has gone thought more social and cultural change and modernized so fast as Turkey after its revolution. The result is the most modern and successful Islamic country in the world.
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He was the first American citizen who was assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency by means of a drone attack. He was a major recruiter for Al Qaeda, and he preached to 3 of the 9-11 terrorists.
In the history of America
Robert Marion "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr., was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin. A Republican for most of his career, he ran for President of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election. Historian John D. Buenker describes La Follette as "the most celebrated figure in Wisconsin history."
