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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  Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

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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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  We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

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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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  The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.

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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 a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

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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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  Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

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  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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  The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

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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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  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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  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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  Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.

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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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  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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  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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  Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

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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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  Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.

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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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