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"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
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"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
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"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."
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"To hold a pen is to be at war."
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"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."
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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
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"They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them."
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"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
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"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."
Enemy
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis
"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."
Experience
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
Leadership
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
Success
"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Friendship
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
Experience
"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets."
Acceptance
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