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Quote by William McKinley
Thats all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an examp

Thats all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. – William McKinley

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To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment. – William McKinley

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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. – Margaret Thatcher

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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. – Douglas MacArthur

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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. – Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World

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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. – Orlando Bloom

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