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.
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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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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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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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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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