Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn 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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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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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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