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"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner."
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"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own."

"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner."
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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

"No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn."

"This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it."

"It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed."

"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."

"I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display."

"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America."
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