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We would take almost any reasonable action before reaching a point of having to make a decision about destroying an American plane over American air space.


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FRANCIS BACON Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...
FRANCIS BACON For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age...
FRANCIS BACON A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
FRANCIS BACON I would live to study, and not study to live.
FRANCIS BACON Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
FRANCIS BACON For knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
FRANCIS BACON Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
FRANCIS BACON