Quote by Trojan horse

"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "Emergence" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan Horse."

— Trojan horse

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot

Unverified quote

0 likes

Themes

Original Language: English

Available Languages (1)

English (Original)

Sources

Herbert Hoover, in The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1952), p. 357

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Trojan_horse

Revision History

No revisions have been submitted for this quote.

Trojan horse

The Trojan Horse, in lore about the Trojan War was a huge wooden horse (Δούρειος Ἵππος, Doúreios Híppos), which hid a select force of warriors inside, used by the Greeks as a subterfuge to gain entrance to the city of Troy. After a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greek armies left it before the gates of the city and sailed away. The Trojans then pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy, and those inside crept out of the horse in the night and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek f

9 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Trojan horse →