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 | "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and
die." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the
ends." | |
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Found in the topic Time.
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| "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or
executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of
the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers
themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Economy.
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| "It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free
men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American. And with them
will come centuries of further greatness to our country." | |
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Found in the topic Freedom.
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| "Words without actions are the assassins of idealism." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And
it is youth that must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the
triumphs that are the aftermath of war." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his
high store of idealism, his affections and his hopes. When we preserve
these, we have made men. We have made citizens and we have made
Americans." | |
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Found in the topic Boy.
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| "The future of nations cannot be frozen ... cannot be foreseen. If we
are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem
in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human
affairs. History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision,
no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway ?
and with violence." | |
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Found in the topic Nation.
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| "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national
debt." | |
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Found in the topic Debt.
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| "The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities." | |
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Found in the topic Grass.
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| "New discoveries in science ... will continue to create a thousand
new frontiers for those who would still adventure." | |
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Found in the topic Science.
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| "My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and
girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity
for service and honor." | |
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Found in the topic Country.
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| "If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must
think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor
should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our
thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of
government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men
to which this nation is dedicated." | |
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Found in the topic Thief.
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| "We have not yet reached the goal but ... we shall soon, with the
help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from
this nation." | |
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Found in the topic Poverty.
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| "While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged
individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by
American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men
and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of
rights led them to make their own way in life." | |
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Found in the topic Individual.
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| "A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus." | |
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Found in the topic President.
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| "Recently, in my opinion, there has been too much talk about the
Common Man. It has been dinned into us that this is the Century of the
Common Man. The idea seems to be that the Common Man has come into his own
at last. But I have never been able to find out who this is. In fact, most
Americans will get mad and fight if you try calling them common.... I have
never met a father and mother who did not want their children to grow up to
be uncommon men and women. May it always be so. For the future of America
rests not in mediocrity, but in the constant renewal of leadership in
every phase of our national life." | |
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Found in the topic Common.
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| "If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is
at an end." | |
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Found in the topic Law.
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| "Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next." | |
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Found in the topic Wisdom.
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| "It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the
ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has
suppressed all free speech except his own." | |
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Found in the topic Dictators.
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