The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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