Conscience Quote by Robert McNamara

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“Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.”

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They'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. Make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.

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Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

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Yeah, yeah, that's right. And I'd rather be damned if I don't.

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Lesson 2: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.

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