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He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983)

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Said days after President Kennedy's assassination (1963)

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

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For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Bertrand Russell Unarmed Victory (1963)

Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

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