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"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
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"But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them."
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"Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions."
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"Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago."
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"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."
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"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."
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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
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"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."
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"War is the business of barbarians."
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"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor."
Benefit
"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
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"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."
Health
"You can change friends but not neighbours."
Friendship
"Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries."
Nation
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
Conviction
"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
Hope
"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
Reality
"The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries."
Perception
"Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary."
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