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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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 Prison Security
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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Destroy Problem Yourself
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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Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Integrity Leadership Possible Quality Success
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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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
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
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Decision Ourselves Rule
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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Deep Food Loss Weapon
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
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
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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Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
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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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Philosophy World
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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Care Government Myself Religious
War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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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Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
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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Government Myself Peace Thinking
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
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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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People

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