"The West as a whole in the..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.
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“There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.”
“It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.”
“For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.”
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“[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals itself in many forms, some of them as beautiful as a glass eye. One is the Liberal doctrine that a prairie demagogue promoted to the United States Senate will instantly show all the sagacity of a Metternich ... another is the doctrine that a moronrun through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will cease thereby to be a moron.”
“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.”
“I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.”