History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
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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 found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.