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"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes."
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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant."

"The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures."

"Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work."

"The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life."

"I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive."

"What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact."

"As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations."

"In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest."
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