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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIt is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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