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"People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice! There's dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies."

"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."

"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."

"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."

"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."

"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"

"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."

"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."

"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"
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"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt."

"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness."

"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath."

"The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind."

"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."

"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."

"America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men."
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