"I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am."

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"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

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"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."

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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

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"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."

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"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."

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"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."

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"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

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"I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"

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"Only Americans can hurt America."

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"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

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"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."

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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

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"You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership."

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"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

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"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

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"The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."

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"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past."

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"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."

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"Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."

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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

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"We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world."

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"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

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"Pessimism never won any battle."

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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

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"Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates."

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"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."

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"An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame -- Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins."

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"I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]"

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"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."

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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

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"Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."

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"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."

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"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth"

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