"World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.“

-Jon Meacham

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"I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived."

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"The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school."

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"In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all."

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"Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith."

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"Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard."

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"An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason."

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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up."

-James A. Baldwin

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

-Stefan Zweig

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

-George Orwell

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

-John Stuart Mill

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

-Hiram Johnson

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

-Albert Einstein