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2007 March 02
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"I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits children to be destroyed." |
"This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." |
"When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible." |
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2007 March 01
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." |
"Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.
It is the landmark of an authoritarian regime..." |
"The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship." |
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2007 February 28
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"There are contingency plans in the NATO doctrine to fire a nuclear
weapon for demonstrative purposes, to demonstrate to the other side that
they are exceeding the limits of toleration in the conventional area." |
"The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it
difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest." |
"We [the U.S.] must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order . . . we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role. " |
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2007 February 27
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"The revulsion against war ...
will be an almost insuperable obstacle for us to overcome.
For that reason, I am convinced that we must begin now
to set the machinery in motion for a permanent wartime economy." |
"American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely
for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat
or attack against the U.S. itself.
Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy." |
"The principal beneficiary of America's foreign assistance programs has always been the United States." |
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2007 February 26
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"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death... " |
"I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished
and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and
seeking to prevent general European trouble." |
"From the standpoint of stable political conditions,
it is perhaps well that Hitler is now in a position
to wield unprecedented power." |
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