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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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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Force Justice Man Peace Protection
I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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Funny Mistake Myself
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
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
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 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
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
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
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
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
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
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
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
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
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
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Freedom Powerful Problem World
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
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
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience

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