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    Corbyn and his appeasement "advisers" should have remembered: Principiis obsta Archived Message

    Posted by Morrissey on April 4, 2020, 10:42 pm

    "How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings.

    Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

    https://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html

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