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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
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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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
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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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
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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Force Justice Man Peace Protection
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
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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Government Myself Peace Thinking
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
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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Funny Mistake Myself
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Children Death Life Tragedy
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win

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