"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators." Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude, March 11, 1917, on the occasion of the Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigris entering Baghdad.
"Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators." Adolf Hitler, February 27, 1933, on the occasion of the Third Reich's invasion of Austria.
Both Maude and Hitler vainly fancied they could 'free' other nations and help them develop and progress by crushing them militarily and then governing them politically. …
