"Sooner or later something had to give. But……" — Alexander Haig
"Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly."
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Alexander Haig
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25 Quotes by Alexander Haig
Alexander Haig has 25 quotes on this site.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
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I am in control here, in the White House.
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A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to…
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The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic…
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Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan…
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I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
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I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear…
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To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and…
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Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international…
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Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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