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“It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.”

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Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

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I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. Some…

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I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as…

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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

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I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

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Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

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If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

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No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

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We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

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