"Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat."
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"Pray excuse me. I cannot take it."
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"The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners."
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"War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life."
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"In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music."
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"Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace."
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"And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years."
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"A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world."
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"America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China."
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"The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government."
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"In general, our generals were outgeneralled."
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"The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will be that Dr Franklins electrical Rod, Smote the Earth and out Spring General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his Rod - and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy Negotiations Legislation and War."
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"When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture."
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"I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government under which we live; a complaint made by the whole South, and that is on the subject of African slavery."
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"[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000."
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"So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point."
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"We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead."
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"In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war."
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"Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world."
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"We are going to lose the war on terror because all of our agents are tied up investigating the GOP."
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