Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains.
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You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
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