"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
"It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth."
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Source: The New Meaning of Treason (1966). West here was referring to the work of Communists seeking to undermine democracies.
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