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I walk where I choose to walk.
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I always get more applause than votes.
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Applause
Vote
Always More Than
Votes
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He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.
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Democracy
Liberty
Military
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
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Symbolic
Want
Burn
Flag
Gesture
Wash
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
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Flags
Gestures
Want
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I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.
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Causes
Champion
Lost
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Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.
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Men
Harry Truman
President
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
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Hero
Levels
Rebellion
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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
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Inspirational
Life
Loyalty
Good Life
Humorous
Secret
Life Good Good Life
Scale
Hold
Loyalties
The Secret Of
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The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.
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Doctrine
Dumb
Trying
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Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
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Men
Liberty
Sacrifice
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All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.
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War
Said
Thinking
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The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.
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Groups
Law
Personality
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You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.
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Wise
Different
Illustration
Use
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The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly
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Differences
Ideas
Republican
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The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.
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Running
Country
Party
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The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and hate in the world.
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War
Hate
Philosophy
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Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
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War
Likes
Nuclear
Nuclear War
People
Said
Good People Who
War Good People
Hour
Million
Million People
Save
Says
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Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search for truth in a world wherein no authority is infallible.
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Essentials
President
World
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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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Power
America
Faults
Forefathers
Mankind
Mistake
Saved
Subjection
Mistakes
Required
Totalitarian
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The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
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Freedom
Names
Usa
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There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A constitution for a new world order is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper.
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Common Sense
Nwo
Order
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