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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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
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
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
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
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Bad Blame Heart Love Yourself
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
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Politics Right Wrong
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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Children Death Life Tragedy
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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
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
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
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
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
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

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