"Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?"
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"Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other."
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"Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war--until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime"
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"I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming."
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"Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying."
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"When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law."
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"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight."
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"Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy."
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"When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move."
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"The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts."
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"The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain."
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"Great results, can be achieved with small forces."
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"It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal."
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"This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it."
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"We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany."
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"We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness."
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"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
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"I engage and after that I see what to do."
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"A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?"
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"You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month."
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