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The heads of these divisions, like barons in a feudal system weakened at the top by mutual suspicion and jealousy between king and prince, were constantly at odds if not at war... For the most part the barons were knowledgeable people performing in a way the times had completely outdated, a fact of which they were quite unaware.

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... to tell a tale of large conceptions, great achievements... Its hero is the American people.

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My memory... is of a department without direction, composed of a lot of busy people working hard and usefully but as a whole not functioning as a foreign office. It did not chart a course to be furthered by the success of our arms, or to aid or guide our arms. Rather it seems to have been adrift carried hither and yon by the currents of war or pushed about by collisions with more purposeful craft.

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Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.

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The experiences of the years... have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.

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