Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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Martydom is just another word for death ... to the dead. -- Bill Purdin

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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves -- is what I call hell.
-- Andre Malraux

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A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. -- Publilius Syrus

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If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy

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We believe that the best available way of increasing our chance of success in Vietnam is the development and execution of a policy of sustained reprisal against North Vietnam -- a policy in which air and naval action against the North is justified by and related to the whole Viet Cong campaign against violence and terror in the South.

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What we can say is that even if it policy fails, the policy will be worth it. -- McGeorge Bundy, who was an influential foreign policy advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and who was a forceful advocate for expanding American involvement in the Vietnam War, died yesterday at the age of 77.