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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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