Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. - Mao Zedong, speech at the sixth Plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China during August 1927 — Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. II, pp. 224-225
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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature. It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and that their authority is for that reason just. It certainly does condemn anarchism,and it does also by inference condemn atheism, since it clearly names the Creator as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived.-G.K. Chesterton, _What I Saw in America_
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