John Fitzgerald
John Fitzgerald
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The basis of effective government if public confidence.
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We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...
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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily lives, and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom
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We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to freedom.
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
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There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan
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That play shouldn't have worked on paper. But it did. Their linemen were confused, and I was supposed to have a lead block, but I got in anyway.
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It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down
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He wants to play, that's genuine. His record speaks for itself. I don't know if there has been a player in the modern game in Australia who has played as much as him -- I would assume that his record in terms of playing and being available is better than anybody.
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He got 68 per cent of his first serves in and that confirms it was one of the best serving performances I have ever seen.
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That city is just looking for an excuse to get together and party. I loved my time there.
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I don't think he'll just go out there just to practice. But I think he would be real good for our defensive backs and receivers alike.
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The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln