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“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”
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“Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right—not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God”
― Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
― Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
“Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.
Everything that makes man's life worthwhile- family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head- all this depends on decisions of government;
all can be swept away by a government that does not heed the demands of its people.”
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Everything that makes man's life worthwhile- family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head- all this depends on decisions of government;
all can be swept away by a government that does not heed the demands of its people.”
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“And so we argued, and so we disagreed - all dedicated, intelligent men, disagreeing and fighting about the future of their country, and of mankind”
― Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
― Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
“the President was deciding, for the U.S., the Soviet Union, Turkey, NATO, and really for all mankind….”
― Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
― Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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