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- Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
- Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, House of Commons, May 2, 1935
- It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
- This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), My Study Windows,1899
- Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- Whenever the press quits abusing me I know I'm in the wrong pew. I don't mind it because when they throw bricks at me-I'm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw 'em back at 'em.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Speech in a dinner in his honor, Washington, D.C., February 22, 1958
- Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
- I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974`
- By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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