"Our intention to regard the closing of the……" — Abba Eban
"Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war."
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Abba Eban
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A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and…
— Lester Roloff
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab…
— Gideon Levy
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Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is:…
— Unknown Author
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War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the…
— Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan.…
— William D. Leahy
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A test of a Christian's character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and…
— Lester Roloff
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You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against…
— Curtis LeMay
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First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is…
— Harry S. Truman
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I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts…
— Sloane Crosley
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