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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Bovee, Chrisitan Nestell. Intuitions and Summaries of Thought. Vol. 1, New York: Sheldon and Company/Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1862.

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Military force—especially when wielded by an outside power—just cannot bring order in a country that cannot govern itself.

Robert McNamara

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McNamara, Robert. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Random House, 1995. Originally published in the Daily Telegraph, 10 Apr. 1995.

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I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "Precaution." Poetry Magazine, Apr. 1936.

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Our Congress represents the people and the States. In all legislative affairs it is the natural collaborator with the President. In spite of all the criticism which often falls to its lot, I do not hesitate to say that there is no more independent and effective legislative body in the world. It is, and should be, jealous of its prerogative. I welcome its cooperation, and expect to share with it not only the responsibility, but the credit, for our common effort to secure beneficial legislation.

Calvin Coolidge

Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1925, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?

Susan Sontag

On the 9/11 attacks.

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Sontag, Susan. "The Talk of the Town: Tuesday, and After." The New Yorker, 24 Sept. 2001. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/24/tuesday-and-after-talk-of-the-town

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Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

John Paul Stevens

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Bush v. Gore

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Stevens, John. Dissenting Opinion. Bush, et al. v. Gore, et al. United States Reports, vol. 531, 12 Dec. 2000, pp. 123-129. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/98/.

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Weightlessness is a great equalizer.

Sally Ride

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Ride, Sally. "An Interview with Sally Ride." NOVA Labs. Conducted in 1984, aired 23 Jul. 2012, season 8, episode 13.

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In reality there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

David Foster Wallace

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Wallace, David Foster. "David Foster Wallace on John McCain: 'The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub.'" Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2000.

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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 17.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 17.

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Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep's clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf.

Antonin Scalia

Morrison v. Olsen

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Scalia, Antonin. Dissenting opinion. Morrison v. Olson. United States Reports, vol. 487, 29 June 1988, pp. 654-734. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/487/654/.

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Never believe governments, not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

Martha Gellhorn

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Gellhorn, Martha. "Obituary." Daily Telegraph, 17 Feb. 1998.

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Trembled to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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Melville, Herman. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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Melville, Herman. Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, edited by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. Quoted in The Dying of the Trees, written by Charles E. Little. Viking Press, 1995, endorsement, back cover.

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There's a helluva distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker

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Parker, Dorothy. "The Art of Fiction." The Paris Review, Summer 1956, Issue 13, p. 80.

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A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

John Steinbeck

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Steinbeck, John. "John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45." Interviewed by Nathaniel Benchley. The Paris Review, Fall 1969. Originally was published in "In Awe of Words." Exonian, 3 Mar. 1954.

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