A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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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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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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