If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
Nations cannot endure in sin.
Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.