“This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date. Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I’d been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”

— Ian Fleming , book Casino Royale

Source: Casino Royale (1953), Ch. 20 : The Nature Of Evil

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English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer 1908–1964

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