In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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