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"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."
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"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
War
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
Military
"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
People
"War is fear cloaked in courage."
War
"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"
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"When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves."
Home
"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country."
Nation
"We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong."
Nation
"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
Being
"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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