"We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region."

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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

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"Peace is preferable to war. But it's not an absolute value, and so we always ask, "What kind of peace?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."

Townsend Harris, American Businessman

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"Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

Steven Magee, British Author

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Habit

"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."

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"I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea."

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"Silence is best."

Silence

"Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party."

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"I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick."

People

"Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing."

Strategy

"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."

Houses

"To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous."

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"It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work."

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