"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions."
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"In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security."
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"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."
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"From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide."
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"The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."
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"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
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"Without cavalry, battles are without result."
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"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."
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"Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers."
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"There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them"
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"There is only one journey. Going inside yourself."
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
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"Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China."
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"I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world."
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"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
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"Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted."
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"The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn."
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"The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation."
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