"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
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"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
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"Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party."
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"The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government."
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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
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"Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet."
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"Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain"
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"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."
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"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
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"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
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"A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war."
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"A leader leads by example not by force."
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"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
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"War is ninety percent information."
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"First feelings are always the most natural."
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"So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications."
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"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."
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"Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence."
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"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil."
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