Nuclear Weapons and The United States - United States Strategic Nuclear Weapons Arsenal

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—Frances Wright (1795–1852)

“I do not know that the United States can save civilization but at least by our example we can make people think and give them the opportunity of saving themselves. The trouble is that the people of Germany, Italy and Japan are not given the privilege of thinking.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

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—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“The strategic adversary is fascism ... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)

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—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

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—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)

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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)