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"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

"I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away."

"We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers."

"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with."

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."

"Let each produce according to his aptitudes and his force; let each consume according to his need."
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"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"

"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."

"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."

"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."

"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."

"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
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