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- Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt…
- We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
- They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating…
- Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they…
- Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals…
- The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,…
- It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
- The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in…
- I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial…
- It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical…
- It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
- The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.
- The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
- If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
- The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,…
- If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a…
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