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Every enlightened, humane, and patriotic Englishman has been ashamed, upon occasion, of what his country has done and will be fearful of what she may do yet. He would be a Pharisee were he to assume that there is a separate England of evil-doers: that this England is not his England, the real England, but another England.

— Frederick Augustus Voigt Pax Britannica (1949)

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Justice is not humane if it is never severe.

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

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

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

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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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