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The love of material goods above all others is as animal as of love of war. The love of justice above material goods must save us in the end it saved we may be.

— Milton Mayer I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)

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Justice alone knows liberty, equality, and fraternity, and justice is a human virtue arising from man's human capacity to reason.

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Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed.

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too.

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Socialism may be all right when men are fit to be socialists.

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National Socialism did not make men unfree; unfreedom made men National Socialists.

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