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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. EISENHOWER

Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
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
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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Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
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
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
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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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Action Yourself
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
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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Myself People Right
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
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
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Achievement Foundation Security Strength
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World

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