- 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