China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

- Michael A. Ledeen

In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli …

- Michael A. Ledeen

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

- Michael A. Ledeen

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

- Michael A. Ledeen

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

- Michael A. Ledeen

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few …

- Michael A. Ledeen

I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion that we are …

- Michael A. Ledeen

Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. Tha…

- Michael A. Ledeen

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of th…

- Michael A. Ledeen