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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a..
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d-day
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric po..
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One day the people of the world will want peace
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed -- those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone -- it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area. What should we do? Shall we take the position that, submitting to threat, it is better to surrender pieces of free territory in the hope that this will satisfy the appetite of the aggressor and we shall have peace?
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shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
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The chief of staff says I'm the guy.
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Steady, Monty. You can't speak to me like that. I'm your boss.
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The free individual has been justified as his own master; the state as his servant.
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength -- and strength alone.
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There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.
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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
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The history of free men is never really written by chance-but by choice-their choice.
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The only way to win the next world war is to prevent it.
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Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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I do have one instruction for you, General. Do something about that damned football team.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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A foundation of our American way of life is our national respect for law.
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It is only as we govern ourselves that we are well-governed.
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