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"The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head." »Aristide Briand
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"Our purpose in vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South vietnam by North vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"One of the greatest casualties of the war in vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of vietnam." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Our numbers have increased in vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"The substance of the eminent socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss." »Winston Churchill
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"It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." »Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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"republic. I like the sound of the word" »John Wayne
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." »Gerald R. Ford
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"The hopes of the republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses." »Winston Churchill
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." »Benjamin Franklin
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"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"When I was a boy ... we didn't wake up with vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses ... storming around about this issue. (On student protesters against vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy." »William Westmoreland
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"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." »William Fullbright
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"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his vietnam War policy)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The Islamic republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger
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"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in vietnam" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"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." »William Fullbright
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"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the republic is destroyed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing." »Ronald Reagan
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