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We have a powerful military force in the Gulf ready to protect our interests there. We have in the past used a variety of military assets, including Tomahawk (cruise) missiles and aircraft, to protect our interests. And we will be able to do that in the future.


Kenneth Bacon

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FRANCIS BACON Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
FRANCIS BACON The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
FRANCIS BACON Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
FRANCIS BACON In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
FRANCIS BACON It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
FRANCIS BACON I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
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