Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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