We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that ""thousands"" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

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When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.

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I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

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But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

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We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

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During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

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