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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
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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Destroy Problem Yourself
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
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
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
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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Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
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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Care Government Myself Religious
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
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Philosophy World
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
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
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
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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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
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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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
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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Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
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
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Art Himself Leadership
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
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time

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