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"Populations interact, some decline to extinction, and some expand. In an ice age the tundra advances on the forest, but in no sense is there a "struggle" between them. As the temperature gets colder, …"

"Awkwardness gives me great comfort."

"I'll not assert that it was a diversion which prevented a war, but nevertheless, it was a diversion."

":I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly."

"Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards. He had been more manageable the first months when he was a novice. For Priebus, it was the worst meeting among many terrible ones. Six months i…"

"It is doubtful whether our soldiers would be maintained if there were not pacific people at home who like to fancy themselves soldiers. War, like other dramatic spectacles, might possibly cease for wa…"

"If pacifists are unable to defend their own gains, what will they do when they don’t have the organized violence of the police?"

"The World War II generation faced threats head-on. Now, by inactivity or through liberal self-loathing, we help those who are trying to kill us."

"Any threat toward cross-strait relations would be unproductive."

"Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of war…"

"he navy must be an adjunct to the army, yet the officers and men of the navy should always have full credit for the service they perform."

"The Muslim League, therefore, had this two-pronged thrust to make in its assault on the non-Muslims of the Muslim majority areas. In the first place it was preaching its two-nation theory and its unco…"

"Assault weapons were designed for and should be used on our battlefields, not on our streets. There is no inalienable right to own and operate 100-round clips on AR-15 assault rifles."

"he Civil War’s victors ended up blaming themselves, or at least allowing the defeated South to foist the blame on them. Postwar Southerners never accepted the results of military defeat in the war, an…"

"No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the …"

"Nine-eleven was an act of war. The villains aren’t the terrorists. The villains live in the White House."

"Everywhere we turn we find evidence that the "civilization," so-called, of higher peoples is a made-over something, and that the antecedent thing from which it has been derived is the "civilization" o…"

"Nuclear weapons are obsolete in an era of asymmetric warfare and cyber warfare and have no placed in a European defence policy for the 21st century. Britain and France have ignored their obligations u…"

"Global warming is a myth."

"Erich Ludendorff was considered the brains of the new German command. He pushed for the resumption of unlimited submarine warfare, which ultimately brought America into the conflict."