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"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations."
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"Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975."
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"The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures."
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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."
"The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life."
"The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends."
"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."
"In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another."
"As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations."
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