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Robert C. Byrd: “Let us take every step necessary to demonstrate that we will not yield to bluster, or to bayonets, or bombs, where…”

On the recordJuly 20, 1961
Let us take every step necessary to demonstrate that we will not yield to bluster, or to bayonets, or bombs, where freedom is at stake. We must recognize that the cost of cowardice is far more fearful a price to pay than that of freedom.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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Jul 20, 1961

Editor's note · Context

Speaking on the Soviet ultimatum over West Berlin.

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