We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.
BERNARD BARUCHAgriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.
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Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
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Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
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Never follow the crowd.
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Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
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Never play tips from “insiders.” They can’t see the forest for the trees.
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
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Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
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Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.
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The path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago … How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom – the clothing of the grave – that some people believe she is already fitted for.
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What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the unexampled record this country has made?
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