"Either we sacrifice our national selfishness for the good of humanity, or we sacrifice the good of humanity to our national selfishness."
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"If one has no courage to denounce, if one bows to madness and stupidity, how can one ever hope to cope with the other wrongs of humanity exploited in the same fashion by Communists?"
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