"It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty."
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"The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world"
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"We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war."
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"Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another."
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"When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue."
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"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
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"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms..."
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"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
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"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
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"What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?"
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"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows."
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"I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!"
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"Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?"
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"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."
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"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
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"In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power."
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"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!"
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"Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war"
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"Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself."
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"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
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