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• It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
• That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress…
• To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
• One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a…
• Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure
• Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba.
• We see what we want to believe.
• In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil
• All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. .…
• One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
• There are many ways to make the death rate increase.
• What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

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