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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
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
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Art Himself Leadership
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
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
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
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
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
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
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
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
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
Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Future History Road
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Care Government Myself Religious
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

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