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.
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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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