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We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.
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I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7,1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
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All creatures kill, there seems to be no exception; but of the whole list, man is the only one that kills for fun; he is the only one that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.
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Catch and shoot the Astrakhan speculators and bribe-takers. These swine have to be dealt with so that everyone will remember it for years.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, I. E. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.
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I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness.
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The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.
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War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.
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