I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
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It is not so much what people do in this world as their reasons for doing it which really makes a difference. Sacrifices are not so important as the reasons for which you sacrifice, and no sacrifice is any good which remains ever present as such.
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At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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