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 | "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses
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Found in the topic Principle.
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| "When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I
went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a
riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him
that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine
professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he"d like to be
President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." | |
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Found in the topic Baseball.
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| "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." | |
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Found in the topic Peace.
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| "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." | |
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Found in the topic Humanitarian.
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| "Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal
dates." | |
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Found in the topic President.
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| "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go
and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles
nothing." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every
day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending." | |
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Found in the topic Economy.
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| "The sergeant is the Army." | |
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Found in the topic Military.
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| "Don"t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal
thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don"t be afraid to
go into your library and read every book." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a
creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures
by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own
responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own
lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the
right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the
right, the opportunity is always there." | |
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Found in the topic Government.
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| "I have found out in later years we were very poor, but the glory of
America is that we didn"t know it then." | |
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Found in the topic Poverty.
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| "What the church should be telling the worker is that the first
demand religion makes on him is that he should be a good workman. If he is
a carpenter he should be a competent carpenter. Church by all means on
Sundays ? but what is the use of church if at the very center of life a
man defrauds his neighbor and insults God by poor craftsmanship." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the
timid." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone?s been
guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I
used to follow a practice?somewhat contrived, I admit?to write the man?s
name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk,
and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I?m
concerned, that fellow. The drawer became over the years a sort of private
wastebasket for crumpled-up spite and discarded personalities. Besides, it
seemed to be effective, and helped me avoid harboring useless black
feelings." | |
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Found in the topic Hate.
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| "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." | |
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Found in the topic Spending.
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| "Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come
to pass in the heart of America." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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| "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from
revolutionist and rebel men and women who dare to disssent from accepted
doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with
disloyal subversion." | |
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Found in the topic Dissent.
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| "More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the
individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed
with all the instruments of modern science, he is still assured personal
freedom and wide avenues of expression so that he may win for himself, his
family and his country greater material comfort, ease and happiness;
greater spiritual satisfaction and contentment." | |
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Found in the topic Individual.
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| "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell
more than he knows." | |
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Found in the topic Censorship.
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| "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness,
consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal
peace." | |
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Found in the topic Justice.
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