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"I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American."
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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
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"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
"I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
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