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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

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  1. I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means short of total war to achieve our ends and oppose communism is a guarantee …
  2. Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would giv…
  3. Life is a war, and in war, there is no second place.
  4. It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.
  5. Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked [:] and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
  6. The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
  7. We are dealing with veterans, not procedures -- with their problems, not ours. -- 1947, as Administrator of the U.S. Veterans Administration

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