"However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast attached to the neck of living prey. This is not an idly chosen figure of speech. War spreads and perpetuates itself through a dynamic that often seems independent of human will. It has, as we like to say of things we do not fully understand, 'a life of its own."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

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“I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.”
“I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.”
“The Constitutional Convention debated whether America should even have a standing army. ... They worried that a powerful military could rival civilian government for power in our new country, and of course they worried that having a standing army around would create too much of a temptation to use it.”
“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”

Source : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”
“Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.”
“The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.”
“You can't take the sky from me.”
“Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.”

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