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    One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense read more

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also read more

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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

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The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of read more

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I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in read more

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.

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