"As for my politics, you will have guessed that I am not a Fascist β Fascism does evil that evil may come. And I am not a Communist, though perhaps I might be one if I was a younger and braver man, for in Communism I see hope. It does many things which I think evil, but I know that it intends good. I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me β a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me. I do care about the past. I do care about the preservation and extension of freedom."
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"Liberty In England", Speech (21 June 1935); reprinted in Abinger Harvest (1936)
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E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 β 7 July 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
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