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“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
— Václav Havel
President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic
Living in Truth (1986) / An Anatomy of Reticence
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