Pessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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