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It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes…

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Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,…
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,…
For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to…
It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost…
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all…
The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way…
The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it…
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political…
Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant…
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for…

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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. — Ambrose Bierce
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you… — Alexander the Great
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show… — William Hazlitt
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt… — Eric Hoffer
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another. — William Hazlitt
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor… — Saadi
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was… — Henry David Thoreau
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to… — Rudolf Steiner
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. — Millard Fillmore
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore

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