I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEREvery 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.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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