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. EISENHOWERThings are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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The 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.
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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