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"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."

"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."

"Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems."

"Military police is very timely for our army."

"A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then."

"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."
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"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."

"The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

"What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology."

"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."

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"Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."
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