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I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices.

— Francisco Franco Laureate Cross acceptance speech (1940)

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We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.

The defense of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

We strive to form a single national front against the Masonic lodges, aginst Moscow and the Marxist societies.

The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.

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