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"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."
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"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."

"In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops."

"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."

"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."

"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."

"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
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