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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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  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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  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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  Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.

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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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  Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

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  You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

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  Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

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  Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

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  May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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  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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  A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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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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  I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

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  Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.

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  Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.

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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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  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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

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  We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.

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  What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

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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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  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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  I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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  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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  Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

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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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  Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

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