Reduce Symptoms

Famous quotes containing the words reduce and/or symptoms:

    “By intervening in the Vietnamese struggle the United States was attempting to fit its global strategies into a world of hillocks and hamlets, to reduce its majestic concerns for the containment of communism and the security of the Free World to a dimension where governments rose and fell as a result of arguments between two colonels’ wives.”
    —Frances Fitzgerald (b. 1940)

    “Not being a K.N. [Know-Nothing] I am left as a sort of waif on the political sea with symptoms of a mild sort towards Black Republicanism.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)