"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work."
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Source: The New York Times, January 15, 1961; later quoted in Jacob Morton Braude Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (p. 173), 1962.
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