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There are two things which a democratic people will always find ve

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. – Barry Goldwater

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We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, impose democracy. We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. – Paul Wolfowitz

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