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Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Freedom Prison Security
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Blessing Greatness
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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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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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Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
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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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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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Deep Food Loss Weapon
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Action Yourself
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
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
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
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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Force Justice Man Peace Protection
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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
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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Dog Fight Necessary

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