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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”

“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

“A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.”

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”