"We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination."

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"We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination."

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"I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant."

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"Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism."

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"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."

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"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work."

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"Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?"

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"After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."

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"Let Us Be GratefulToday we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them."

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