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On 'don't ask, don't tell' I was always the same. I said we needed a complete review of the impact on morale and battle effectiveness of 'don't ask, don't tell' before we repeal it. That's my position now. Now they're trying to ram through a repeal without a - any kind of really realistic survey done.

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Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
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We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
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War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
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As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
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Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself to a cause to your principles to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
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Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.
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The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
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The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.
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That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.
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Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
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From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
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