"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
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Mahatma Gandhi, Non-Violence in Peace and War, 1942, Vol. 1, Ch. 142
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