We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn 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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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