- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
- Democratic Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
- Divergence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
- Excuses
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
- Difficulties
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020