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“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”
― Strange Defeat
― Strange Defeat
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― Strange Defeat
“By concentrating attention on matters concerned with the earning of their daily bread, they ran the risk of discovering that there might be no daily bread to earn.”
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― Strange Defeat
“A democracy becomes hopelessly weak, and the general good suffers accordingly, if its higher officials, bred up to despise it, and necessarily drawn from those very classes the dominance of which it is pledged to destroy, serve it only half-heartedly.”
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― Strange Defeat
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