The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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