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"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."
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"That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."
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"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."
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"We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy."
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"However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops."
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"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."
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"All oppression creates a state of war."
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"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."
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"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them."
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"World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us."
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"American corporations hate to give away money."
Money
"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
Money
"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
Power
"I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson."
Thought
"Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote."
Life
"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
Friendship
"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
Business
"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."
Success
"To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way."
History
"Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice."
Character
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