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• Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike
  that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage -- and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed....
• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
  I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it....
• America is a stronger nation for the ACLU's uncompromising effort.
  -- President John F. Kennedy The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us....
• It is a time for a new generation ofleadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities.
  For there is a new world to be won. -- John F. Kennedy...
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...
• What sin has not been committed in the name of efficiency?
• My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.
  ... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch....