War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson
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I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?' -
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. -
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. -
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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- The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
- One man with courage makes a majority.
- The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
- Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
- Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.