"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul."
-Herbert Hoover
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"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.“
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
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"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."
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"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war."
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"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
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"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
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