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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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Freedom Prison Security
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Himself Man Tears Worth
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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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Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
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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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
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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Freedom Powerful Problem World

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