Military and Government
- Chief of Defence Intelligence, head of the UK Defence Intelligence Staff
- Custodial Detention Index, list of U.S. residents compiled by FBI during 1939-1941, later used for Japanese American internment
- Cote d'Ivoire, once known as Ivory Coast, country in West Africa
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“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
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“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
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“Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.”
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