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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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"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers."
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"While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years."
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"The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."
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"Politics doesn't mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
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"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."
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"Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity."
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"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
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"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party."
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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."
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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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"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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"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."
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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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