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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIt is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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 time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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