“I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.”
Letter to Harold J. Laski (4 March 1920); reported in Holmes-Laski Letters (1953) by Mark DeWolfe Howe, vol. 1, p. 249.
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