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In a war, while one side may ultimately be able to claim victory, both sides lose.

Anonymous

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We are not going to war over a bunch of dead [American] sailors.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ordering Admiral Lawrence Geis to recall Sixth Fleet aircraft that were on their way to drive off Israeli military forces who were attempting to murder the entire crew of the minimally armed surveillance ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 5th President of the United States

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Send an email, make a call, write a letter. We [Hawaii state legislators] need to know what you think and the system works much better if you are involved.

Hawaii state representative Karl Rhoads, District 28 (Palama, Downtown, Chinatown, Sheridan)

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I'd rather be in jail in America than free anywhere else.

Former communist & Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver shortly after he voluntarily returned to the U.S. as a prisoner from seven years as a free man, but an exile, abroad

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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He who fears criticism is hopeless. Only those who do things are criticized. To hesitate for fear of criticism is cowardly. If our cause is right be not afraid of criticism, advocate it, expound it, and, if need be, fight for it. Critics always have been and always will be, but to the strong minded they are a help rather than a hindrance. Take your part in life’s stage and play your part to the end.

Thomas Jefferson

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I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal [sic] Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger [All three are retired from government service, but are Council on Foreign Relations members]

James L. Jones, U.S. National Security Advisor, Feb 18, 2009

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. . . it’s good to have an [new] outpost of the Council [on Foreign Relations] right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations, July 15, 2009

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Details of 100 Million Facebook Members Published Online

Submitted by HPI on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 23:47

Company plays it down. Thousands have already downloaded the information. Security consultant says users' personal information cannot now be made private.
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msnbc.com

The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable to make their publicly available information private.

However, Facebook downplayed the issue, saying that no private data had been compromised.

The information was posted by Ron Bowes, an online security consultant, on the Internet site Pirate Bay.

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