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«The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.»
Author: A. J. P. Taylor
(Historian, Journalist)
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«Four specters haunt the Poor / Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.»
Author: David Lloyd George
(Prime Minister)
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«What is pretty clear is that we will be faced with the specter of another nuclear power which can use their weapons to threaten South Korea, to threaten Japan . . . with every prospect that they will sell some of that plutonium and nuclear bombs to the highest bidder so they might end up in American cities as well.»
Author: William J. Perry
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«There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.»
«How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?»
«Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
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«We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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