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This seems to me to be more a day for a searching of the human soul perhaps than for any kind of scientific celebration.

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The fault of democracy everywhere, including the United States of America, is that too few people make use of it.

Just think! If we survive them, these will be the good old days!

Perhaps the greatest good that will emerge from this Far Eastern crisis is an awareness that freedom-loving men of all races and all nations will have proved that they can and must work and fight together if their freedom is to survive.

Okay, Ed, now I've gotten the ice. When are you gonna stand up to McCarthy?

We've lost, or appear to be losing, the international title as the greatest revolutionary power in the world; and we seem to be losing it to a revolutionary form of totalitarianism. Maybe the American revolution is over.

Years of Crisis (1955)

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