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It is said that only when the Germans are weak and disunited are they great—great, that is to say, in art and letters, in science, in speculative thought.

— Frederick Augustus Voigt Pax Britannica (1949)

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Justice is not humane if it is never severe.

Pax Britannica (1949)

He who is never ashamed of his country has as little patriotism as he who is never proud of his country.

Pax Britannica (1949)

That the individual has any rights of his own, even the right to live, has no meaning at all to Lenin or Hitler.

Unto Caesar (1938)

Marxism has led to Fascism and National-Socialism, because, in all essentials, it is Fascism and National Socialism.

Unto Caesar (1938)

Lenin and Hitler are haters of freedom and—in so far as they are capable of love at all—they are lovers of intolerance. They wanted freedom to establish unfreedom.

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