"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
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"This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making."
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"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war."
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"As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes."
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"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk."
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"We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes."
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"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
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"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance."
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"We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division."
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"The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress."
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
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"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
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"...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason."
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"From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows."
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"Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle."
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"Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence."
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"Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up."
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"It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war."
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"With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community."
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"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
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