Ataturk, Father of the modern Republic of Turkey, empowered the military to be custodians of maintaining a secular government, with responsibility to remove political leaders who drifted toward Islamist fundamentalism: "Mohammedanism was based on Arab nationalism above all nationalities ... The purpose of the religion founded by Muhammad, over all nations, was to drag (them into) Arab national politics ... (It) might have suited tribes in the desert. It is no good for a modern, progressive state."
For 25 years, Skanderbeg struck fear into the heart of the Ottoman armies. His 10,000 braves soldiers, often outnumbered in battle, consistently won against larger and better supplied Turks.Considered a model of Christian resistance, when Skanderbeg died in1468, the Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed the Conqueror, exclaimed: "At last Europe and Asia are mine! Woe to Christendom! It has lost its sword and its shield."
After these three major defeats: the Battle of Malta, September 11, 1565; the Battle of Vienna, September 11, 1683; and the Battle of Zenta, September 11, 1697, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire stopped and began its slow decline. Many think it is more than coincidence that September 11th was chosen for the 2001 and 2012 attacks, as well as, near that date in 2021, the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.
Reagan warned of socialism being instituted through a medical healthcare crisis: "One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism is medicine. It is easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project ... If you don’t stop this ... behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom ... until one day we will awake and find we have socialism."
Tocqueville: "Thus, the ruling power, having taken each citizen one by one into its powerful grasp ... spreads its arms over the whole of ... social life with a network of petty, complicated, detailed, and uniform rules ... It does not break men's wills but it does soften, bend, and control them ... It constantly opposes what actions they perform ..."
