A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
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To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
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It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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Source: in a letter to Winston Churchill
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We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.
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True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
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Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
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Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
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Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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