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The plain truth is the day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its own borders. Regional and international organizations for peace-keeping purposes are as yet rudimentary; but they must grow in experience and be strengthened by deliberate and practical cooperative action.

— Robert McNamara

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Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.

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Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.

Robert McNamara (1967)

I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.

Charles A. Stevenson (2006)

Is it right and proper that today there are 7500 strategic offensive nuclear warheads, of which 2500 are at 15 minute alert to be launched by the decision of one human being?

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Kennedy would have ordered nuclear retaliation on Cuba —and perhaps the Soviet Union— if nuclear weapons had been fired at United States forces.

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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

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