Pessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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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 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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments 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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