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"Tonight Vietnam must hold the center of our attention, but across the world problems and opportunities crowd in on the American Nation. I will discuss them fully in the months to come, and I will foll…"

"Our demand for the Green New Deal must be stronger than fossil fuel lobbyists. Our demand for Medicare for All must be stronger than Big Pharma lobbyists. Our demand for Net Neutrality must be stronge…"

"Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets? Isn't this the kind of competition you want?"

"If you are not capable of cruelty, then you are absolutely a victim of anyone who is. For those who are exceedingly agreeable, there is a part of them crying out for the incorporation of the monster w…"

"There is no alternative for Britain but to keep power on her side, which means the power of the United States. There is in my opinion no alternative for Britain other than to retain a nuclear capacity…"

"If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and …"

"The purpose of ki-aikido is not self-defence; that is a mere by product. It is far more important to learn to control the mind and body. It is too late to try to calm the mind after you take up the sw…"

"This mighty wall of four score miles in length is only exceeded by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the moon."

"If we take a cold, hard look at the human condition, we see an unpleasant picture. However, there are powerful biological drives against fully recognizing the awfulness of the human predicament that e…"

"Then, not only America, but the Europeans, Japan, and some of the more powerful industrialized nations will have to look very seriously at their plans for implementing an agreement like the Kyoto agre…"

"Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?"

"WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME----------GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!"

"he Constitution vests the Legislature with the power to investigate potential abuses of official authority—when necessary to hold government officials accountable, as representatives of the People of …"

"To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws."

"Practically all the civil and military authorities of the government, except the Congress and the courts, hold their office at discretion. He appoints, and he can remove. The billions of dollars of go…"

"Might have gone further and have fared worse."

"Before God we are all Equal,” say many;— and they readily admit that in another life we shall actually be placed upon an Equality, because they cannot dispute this certainty. Nevertheless, he who is d…"

"A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army."

"Control over one’s tongue, and good conduct enhance one’s prestige."

"We are entering the dimension where we have control - the inside."