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"Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."
"One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence"."
"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced."
"The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men."
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them."
"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."
"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
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