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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
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
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
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
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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Deep Food Loss Weapon
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
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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Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
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
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
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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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
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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History Powerful Teaching
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Destroy Problem Yourself
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
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
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself

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