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If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17
or even in being alive.
Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.
You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.
I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.
There is no danger is letting people have their say ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
Nothing can be controlled by one country today; nothing.
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand ... And the power in hand is the vote.
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
