Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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