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"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."
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"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
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"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
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"All professions are a conspiracy against the country."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."
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"Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad."
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"Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people."
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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
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"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."
Politics
"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
Identity
"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
Politics
"When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation."
Building
"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
Lifestyle
"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."
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"Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me."
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"And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation."
Nation
"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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