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“War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its…

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We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our…

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With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one…

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

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Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these…

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“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go…

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Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest…

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Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other…

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The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and…

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The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

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I’m going to pass a law that no one can ask me my golf score.

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I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.

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