I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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