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We will fight anyone who wishes to impose a totalitarian system upon a free society, and we will always prevail. But we will not do so with a fear-stricken administration which seeks to deprive us of freedoms in the name of 'defending' us from the terrorists, who also seek to deprive us of our freedoms.

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John F. Kerry
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.
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