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Harry Truman: Dictatorship, by whatever name, is rounded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the…

On the recordMarch 5, 1946
Dictatorship, by whatever name, is rounded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only thing that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the State.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address in Columbus at a Conference of the Federal Council of Churches.

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