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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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Myself People Right
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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Funny Mistake Myself
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
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
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
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
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
True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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History Powerful Teaching
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

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