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Britain has never been cowed by fear or hatred or terror. Our Great British resolve faced down Hitler; it defeated Communism; it saw off the IRA’s assaults on our way of life. Time and again we have stood up to aggression and tyranny.

— David Cameron Speech on extremism (2015)

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Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

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