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The Impersonal Hand Of Government Can Never Replace The Helping Hand Of A Neighbor.

Certainly One Of The Chief Guarantees Of Freedom Under Any Government, No Matter How Popular And Respected, Is The Right Of Citizens To Keep And Bear Arms. This Is Not To Say That Firearms Should Not Be Very Carefully Used And That Definite Safety Rules Of Precaution Should Not Be Taught And Enforced. But The Right Of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One More Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, And One More Safeguard Against Tyranny Which Now Appears Remote In America, But Which Historically Has Proved To Be Always Possible.

My Friends, To Those Who Say That We Are Rushing This Issue Of Civil Rights, I Say To Them We Are 172 Years Late. To Those Who Say That This Civil-rights Program Is An Infringement On States’ Rights, I Say This: The Time Has Arrived In America For The Democratic Party To Get Out Of The Shadow Of States' Rights And To Walk Forthrightly Into The Bright Sunshine Of Human Rights.

Before People Will Do Anything, They Have Got To Eat. And If You Are Really Looking For A Way For People To Lean On You And To Be Dependent On You, In Terms Of Their Cooperation With You, It Seems To Me That Food Dependence Would Be Terrific.

Today We Know That World War Ii Began Not In 1939 Or 1941 But In The 1920's And 1930's When Those Who Should Have Known Better Persuaded Themselves That They Were Not Their Brother's Keeper.