"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction."
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"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
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"Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now."
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"[The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world."
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"Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest; for a world that would be safe for future generations. Their devotion must never be forgotten."
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"A people free to choose will always choose peace."
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"The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars."
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"Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision."
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"In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed."
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"It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order."
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"Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting."
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"The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds."
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"Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total."
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"The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both."
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"One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him."
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"It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled."
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"We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy."
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"If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory."
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"Rapidity is the essence of war."
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"If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight."
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