Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is my answer to him. We do not say that your grandchildren will live under capitalism. We prefer our system. But the very essence of our belief is that we do not and that we will not try to impose our system on anybody else. We believe that you and all other peoples on this earth should have the right to choose the kind of economic or political system that best fits your particular problems, and to do that without any foreign intervention...
...President, you will be called upon to attend many religious services in Protestant churches. Can you attend such services and worship in freedom of conscience and in the belief that such service can bless the land that you serve...
...serious error to assume that departure from the Stalinist model means movement toward the democratic constitutional model," they say. For the West, they suggest: "We had better turn our face elsewhere, rest our hopes on other foundations than on the belief that the Soviet system will mellow and abandon its long-range goals of world domination...
...what does Harvard proffer one who for more than a quarter of a century has gladly learned, and gladly taught? It is my belief that Harvard hoards on its campus essential tangible and intangible values that renew and sustain one's faith in an institution of higher learning. A long period of learning and teaching has carried me to a multitude of college campuses. Some of them have been, and are, top ranking universities and colleges; but, reflecting upon the lot, I would pronounce Harvard the noblest campus of them...
...Committee hearings, he could turn on his rage at will and stage a tantrum walkout just in time to get to the men's room. "McCarthy, though a demon himself, was not a man possessed by demons . . . He lacked the most necessary and awesome of demagogic gifts-a belief in the sacredness of his own mission...