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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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"Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority."
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"The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious."
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"Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest."
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"As artists, we are eternally heartbroken."
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"I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it."
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"I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!"
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
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"The man whose authority is recent is always stern."
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"Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear."
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"The system in the world want to control people and rule them for its own purposes."
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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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"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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"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
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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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"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."
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"My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever."
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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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"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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