"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.“

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

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