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"I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center."

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."

"In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?"

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were."
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