The United States of America, in the mid-1990s: “In America, government agents came first for the machine guns, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a machine gunner. Then, government agents came for the handguns, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a handgunner. Then, government agents came for the semiautos, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a semiauto owner. Then, government agents came for the antique gun collector, and I didn’t speak up because I was a hunter. Then, government

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A statement made by Pastor Martin Niemoller at the time of his arrest by the Nazi Gestapo in the late 1930s: “In Germany, they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then, they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then, they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then, they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then, they came for me, and by that

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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the

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