No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan

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Power of freedom Freedom

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Ronald Reagan

Source

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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American President National leader Politician

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United States

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Citation

Reagan, Ronald. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1981, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in-particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Time
1989 1980s 20th century
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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Being and Nothingness
Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address
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Language
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Time
1865 1860s 19th century
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Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1865, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Second Inaugral Address, March 4, 1865." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.