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"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."
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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
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"A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command-of his head."
"It is the purpose of government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved."
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world."
"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
"Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes."
"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
"Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference."
"Freedom of conscience of education of speech of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged."
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