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| | Sixth Column - Robert A. Heinlein |
 | | It would have to be something like the "fifth columns" that destroyed the European democracies from within in the tragic days that led up to the final flout of European civilization. |
 | | But this would not be a fifth column of traitors, bent on paralyzing a free country, but the antithesis of that, a sixth column of patriots whose privilege it would be to destroy the morale of invaders, make them afraid, unsure of themselves. |
 | | During a period of racial insanity, mass psychoses, hysteria, manic depression, paranoia, it is possible for a man who believes in change to hold on, to arrest his judgment, to go slow, to take a look at the facts, and not be badly hurt. |
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