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There must be no scapegoats, no human sacrifices... The Christian Democrats are closing ranks around their own... You will not put us on trial in the streets; we will not allow ourselves to be put on trial.

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Source: from a speech held at the Italian Parliament on the Lockheed scandal, 9 March 1977; quoted in P. Guzzanti, La difesa di Moro, la Repubblica, 10 March 1977; quoted in Ginsborg 1989, p. 510.
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