"We must organize all labor, no matter how dirty and arduous it may be, so that every [citizen] may regard himself as part of that great army of free labor.... The generation that is now fifteen years old & must arrange all their tasks of education in such a way that every day, and in every city, the young people shall engage in the practical solution of the problems of common labor, even of the smallest, most simple kind." [Vladimir Lenin] "Imagine an army of 100,000 young people restoring urban and rural communities and giving their labor in exchange for education and training.... [National Service] will harness the energy of our youth and attack the problems of our time. It literally has the potential to revolutionize the way young people all across America look at their country and feel about themselves." [Bill Clinton] ------- "[T]here is the great silent, continuous struggle; the struggle between the State and the individual; between the State which demands and the Individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or a hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war." [Benito Mussolini] "I'm here because I want to redefine the meaning of citizenship in America.... [I]f you're asked in school, "What does it mean to be a good citizen?" I want the answer to be, "Well, to be a good citizen, you have to obey the law, you've got to go to work or be in school, you've got to pay your taxes and - oh, yes, you have to serve...." [Bill Clinton, at the Volunteerism Summit] ------- "We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: ... an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand... the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all- around enlargement of our entire system of public education... We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents... The government must undertake the improvement of public health - by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor... by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the... materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good." [Excepts from the political program of the Nazi Party, adopted in Munich on 1920 Feb 24; found in _Die Nazionalsozialistische Dokumente_ 1933-1945, edited by Walther Hofer, Frankfurt am Mein; Fischer Bucherei, 1957,pp29-31.] "But you know, it's about time we start thinking about the common good and the national interest, instead of just individuals, in our country." [Hillary Clinton 1994 health care speech] ------- "All the people I know who are driving for a form of national service, primarily want it to be compulsory. They realize that's a terrible problem politically, so they're not willing to say it. It is endangerment of freedom and the potential for indoctrination that skeptics do not like in the national service concept. However benign the program, some think it will not succeed on any meaningful scale unless it is compulsory." [Martin Anderson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Boston Globe, November 29, 1992] ------- "In his April 5 radio address outlining the goals of the summit, the President endorsed compulsory volunteerism - and even called for extending it to middle schools. In other words, the man who so famously avoided the dangerous duty of fighting in Vietnam as a young man now proposes drafting a new generation of young people to perform a different set of difficult tasks." [New York Post editorial, April 27, 1997] ------- "Fascism finds it necessary, at the outset, to take away from the ordinary human being what he has been taught and has grown to cherish the most: personal liberty. And it can be affirmed, without falling into exaggeration, that a curtailment of personal liberty not only has proved to be, but necessarily must be, a fundamental condition of the triumph of Fascism." [Mario Palmieri, "The Philosophy of Fascism" (1936)] "[W]hen we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.... [However, now] there's a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there's too much freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." [Bill Clinton] ------- "Before they have their own families, the young can make a unique contribution to the family of America. In doing so, they can acquire the habit of service, and get a deeper understanding of what it really means to be a citizen. That is the main reason, perhaps, why we are here." [Bill Clinton] "Family - see Fascist State." [Benito Mussolini's Fascist dictionary] ------- "We're here for the first President's Summit for America's Future - to mobilize every community and challenge every citizen and to ask our young people to become citizen-servants, too." [Bill Clinton] ------- "According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, with this need of raising the State to its rightful position." [Mario Palmieri, "The Philosophy of Fascism" (1936)] ------- "What they're trying to do is enslave our society by taking our children's rights away. Young people who go through these [mandatory community service] programs learn to submit, and later on they won't mind giving up a few more of their rights when the government says it's necessary." [Thomas Moralis (father of two students denied high school diplomas for not complying with a mandatory service requirement)] ------- "When an opponent says, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already.... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." [Adolf Hitler] ------- "It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual. ... The greater the readiness to subordinate purely personal interests, the higher rises the ability to establish comprehensive communities ... This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture ... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow man." [Adolf Hitler, speaking in Buckeburg on Oct. 7, 1933 quoted in Leonard Peikoff's _The Ominous Parallels_] ------- "We need a national-corporate commitment to public service to look after [the elderly]. We aren't able to provide resources unless the young pay something for their patrimony through public service." [William F. Buckley Jr. in Mother Jones magazine] ------- "We will not recognize [American Fascism] as it rises. It will wear no black shirts here. It will probably have no marching songs. It will rise out of a congealing of a group of elements that exist here and that are the essential components of Fascism.... It will be at first decorous, humane, glowing with homely American sentiment. But a dictatorship cannot remain benevolent. To continue, it must become ruthless. When this stage is reached we shall see that appeal by radio, movies, and government-controlled newspapers to all the worst instincts and emotions of our people. The rough, the violent, the lawless men will come to the surface and into power. This is the terrifying prospect as we move along our present course." [John T. Flynn, writing in the American Mercury, February 1941] ------- "The necessity, for which the older doctrines make little allowance, of sacrifice, even up to the total immolation of individuals, in behalf of society. For Liberalism, the individual is the end and society is the means; nor is it conceivable that the individual, considered in the dignity of an ultimate finality, be lowered to mere instrumentality. For Fascism, society is the end, individuals the means, and its whole life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends". [Alfred Rocco (1875-1935)] ------- "There are no private Germans, each is to attain significance only by his service to the State, and to find complete self-fulfillment in this service" [Friedrich Sieburg (1893-1964) speech writer for Hitler] ------- "The only person who is still a private individual in Germany, is someone who is asleep" [Robert Ley (1890-1945)- Nazi Party] ------- "Gemeinnuetz vor Einnuetz." "Common needs before individual needs." [Nazi Party slogan, 1932] -------