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A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent o... (more Robert McNamara quotes)
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