Comfort and habits let us be ready to forego, but I am not ready for a creed which does not care how much it destroys the liberty and security of daily life, which uses deliberately the weapons of persecution, destruction and international strife. How can I admire a policy which finds a characteristic expression in spending millions to suborn spies in every family and group at home, and to stir up trouble abroad?
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It assumes all ideological commitments inherently threaten daily life.
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Because we believe in the free mind we are also fighting those who, in the name of anti-Communism, would assail the community of freedom itself.