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It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to…

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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will…
It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their…
Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the…
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with…
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no…
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great…
Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for…
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve…
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than…
The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful…

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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will… — Ronald Reagan
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can… — Richard M. Nixon
Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even… — Thomas Aquinas
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence… — Harold Lasswell
Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. — Saddam Hussein
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars… — Howard Zinn
I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I… — Dominic Monaghan
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. — Mahmoud Darwish
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in… — Mark Twain
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,… — Pope Benedict XVI

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