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Old 02-12-2003, 07:03 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Written to a pacifist in 1941.
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If all the young people in America were to act as you intend to act, the country would be defenseless and easily delivered into slavery.
-Albert Einstein

"FYI.", Popular Science March 2003: 102



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As I remember he spent some time in Austria before their "merger" with the Nazis.

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Old 02-13-2003, 10:48 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Einstein was a pacifist during World War I; he just recognized the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and Hitler. He wasn't Austrian -- came from Ulm, as I recall -- and took out Swiss citizenship for a while before returning to Germany.
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Nice quote.
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Old 02-13-2003, 12:51 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Some other Einstein quotes you might not be quite so pleased with...
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