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"Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did."
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"The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part."

"Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse."

"I tapped my cup to his, grateful to have found Shaun, because for a minute there, I'd thought I was going to have to save myself. Instead, I'd wandered into the protective care of a sexy older man."

"EVERY DOG'S STORYI have a bed, my very own.It's just my size.And sometimes I like to sleep alonewith dreams inside my eyes.But sometimes dreams are dark and wild and creepyand I wake and am afraid, though I don't know why.But I'm no longer sleepyand too slowly the hours go by.So I climb on the bed where the light of the moonis shining on your faceand I know it will be morning soon.Everybody needs a safe place."

"Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security."

"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem."

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
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"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."

"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"

"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."
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