Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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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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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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