"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
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"The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world."
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"The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them."
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"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves... They do everything but watch television."
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"The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy."
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"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict."
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"When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers."
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"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
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"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
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"Wars are not won by evacuations."
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"Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it."
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"We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history."
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"Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack."
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"Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle."
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"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
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"The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world."
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"Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone."
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"There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature."
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"You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently."
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