Quote #36

Kennedy: We have enough missiles to blow you [USSR] up thirty times over. Khrushchev: We have enough to blow you up only once, but that will be enough for us.

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  2. Aircraft carriers, of course are the second most effective weapon in a modern navy (after submarines). I'll admit I felt a nagging desire t…
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  4. We'll kick you so hard you won't remember your own name.
  5. Historians are the most powerful and dangerous members of any society. They must be watched carefully... They can spoil everything.
  6. The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon.
  7. If I do not know everything, then I would say that you know nothing about communism; nothing except fear of it.
  8. The Grape-fruit satellite.

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