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"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive."

"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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