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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty—all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.

— John Thomas Flynn As We Go Marching (1944)

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Fascism is a leftist product—a corrupt and diseased offshoot of leftist agitation.

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It can never be done in a society of free men where criticism cannot be silenced and where compliance cannot be enforced.

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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is a war.

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