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  Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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 world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

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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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  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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  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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  Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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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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  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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  May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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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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  Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.

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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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  They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.

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  Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

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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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  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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  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

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  What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

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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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  The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

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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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  Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

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