We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPreventive 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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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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