Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
My mother is a very strange woman. . . She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices
To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story. "
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.
We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.