"No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world."
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"We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead."
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"So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate."
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"Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics."
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"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader."
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"You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government."
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"Never answer a critic, unless he's right."
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"I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. ."
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"Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war."
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"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."
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"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit"
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"Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer."
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"America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for."
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"America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path..."
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"Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer."
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"A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made? In a period scarcely twice my own lifetime it has risen from nothingness to become the world's greatest power. It has become the ark of the covenant of freedom."
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"Financial storm definitely passed."
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"The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England"
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"Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves."
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"Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share."
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