"Nothing irritates us so much as to be taken for pillars of order. Nothing so exasperates us as the people who come to us through fear of Communism. Those good people will have to realize, and we shall soon make them realize, that the weight of the social problem is now on our shoulders and that they would be wiser to fear us than to fear Communism."
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