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Jim Inhofe: “No man survives when freedom fails, the best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
No man survives when freedom fails, the best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Inhofe criticized Hagel's views on foreign policy and quoted Hiram Mann on appeasement.

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