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"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
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"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."

"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion."

"He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother's consecrated grave."

"A few days earlier, in front of his guests at his own birthday celebration, this man had started smashing his own crockery and tearing his and his wife's clothes, because he was not offered enough vodka; then he went on to break every stick of furniture in his house and smash all the windows, and he did it all for the "beauty" of the gesture, as Mr. Karamazov had just now."

"Who knew, or cared, the names of the Turks who blew the roof off the Parthenon? the mullahs who had ordered the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan? Yet living or dead: their acts stood. It was the worst kind of immortality. Intentionally or no: I had extinguished a light at the heart of the world."

"Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine."

"Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression."

"To Kalist, Baumauer's just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire."

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
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"Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America."

"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."

"The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession."

"True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us."

"If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description."

"I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations."

"The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors."

"For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism."

"Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found."

"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit."
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