The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHistory 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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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