You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThough force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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