FastSaying
In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."
(
Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech
, June 16, 1918)
Eugene V. Debs
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