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James F. Byrnes

"Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them."

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"Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them."

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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

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"I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect."

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"Power is not powerful without wisdom."

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"The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them."
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"Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
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"It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West."
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"We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world."
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"German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors."
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"Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression."
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"That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement."
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"We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification."
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"The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement."
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"Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace."
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