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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The Cold War isn’t thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.