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" An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. "
Who
Man
Game
" An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. "
Intellectual
Words
Man
" Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. "
Knees
Neat
Always
" Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. "
Either
Crazy
Any
" A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. "
People
Society
Values
" Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. "
Mutual
Continuing
Honor
" Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "
Think
Book
You
" Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "
Thoughts
You
Think
" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "
Sense
Cold
Gun
" Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. "
Easy
Pencil
You
" Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. "
Age
Youth
Women
" From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. "
Iron
Hard
Tyranny
" Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. "
Men
America
Dare
" History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. "
Weak
Long
History
" How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? "
Go
Trying
Defend
" Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. "
Humility
Man
Friends
" 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. "
American
Looking
Face
" I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. "
Need
Obey
Get
" I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. "
Right
Center
Left
" If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. "
Cannot
Problem
Solved
" I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. "
Speak
Life
My Life
" If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. "
Peaceful
Men
Man
" If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. "
Hope
World
Will
" 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. "
Care
Freedom
Medical
" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "
Stupidity
War
Hate
" I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. "
Out
Poor
Glory
" I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? "
Test
America
Good
" I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? "
America
Good
Only
" I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. "
Believe
Run
Long
" I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. "
Feel
Saving
Really
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