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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Freedom Prison Security
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
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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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
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
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
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Bad Blame Heart Love Yourself
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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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Alone Money War Weapon World
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win
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
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Children Death Life Tragedy
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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Future History Road
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.
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Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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