If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls. Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938.

~ Jan Masaryk

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Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

~ Jan Masaryk

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