"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

James Reston, American Journalist

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy."

Diplomacy

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

Patience

"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."

Man

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

Leadership

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

Principle

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."

Government

"Where annual elections end where slavery begins."

Politics

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

Hope

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."

Power

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

Courage