"It is shameful that even today the Christian Democrats are still being accused of the only occasion on which, by sacrificing their leader, they demonstrated that sense of statehood that they have always been accused of lacking. What did Moro ask for? In those letters, the “distinguished statesman”, the man who had governed the country for over thirty years, asked the state to renounce the principles on which it was founded, its laws and its institutions in order to save his life."