Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter III, Some Implications Of The First Image, p. 69
“We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.”
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