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"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?"
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
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"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long."
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"Miscellaneous is always the largest category."
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"For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs."
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"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."
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"I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add."
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"The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover."
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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!"
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
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"I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution."
Integrity
"Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong."
Politics
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
People
"This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose."
Faith
"Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars."
War
"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
Survival
"Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."
Life
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
President
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Leadership
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