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For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.
Nicholas Kristof
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
Noah Feldman
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I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
Eric Kandel
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The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.
Linda Chavez
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In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
Lynn Nottage
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The principal cause of war is war itself.


C. Wright Mills
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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
Neville Chamberlain
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When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driven, propelled by the transformation of a crime lord's youngest son, who breaks bad when he evolves from white-sheep war hero to blood-soaked inheritor of his father's empire.
Steve Erickson
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Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
Alice Miller
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Herodotus
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.


Felix Adler
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
Jack Kemp
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True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.


David Mallet
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Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.


Preston Manning
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If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.


Dan Quisenberry
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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.


John Gunther
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The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
Joseph Jacobs
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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.


Eric Ripert
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The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.


Joseph Sobran