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"I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience."

"It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. This is why the weak are so deeply concerned with…"

"The concept of peace is easy to grasp; that of international security is more complex, for a pattern of contradictions has arisen here as well. As major nuclear Powers have begun to negotiate arms red…"

"Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead."

"The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence."

"I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. … Education itself — which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of toleran…"

"There are signs that the system of collective security established in San Francisco nearly 50 years ago is finally beginning to work as conceived . . . We are on the way to achieving a workable intern…"

"No, because Disneyland is not an independent state."