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Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed.

— Milton Mayer They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

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Justice alone knows liberty, equality, and fraternity, and justice is a human virtue arising from man's human capacity to reason.

I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)

The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too.

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

Socialism may be all right when men are fit to be socialists.

I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)

National Socialism did not make men unfree; unfreedom made men National Socialists.

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)

The love of material goods above all others is as animal as of love of war. The love of justice above material goods must save us in the end it saved we may be.

I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)

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