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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Existence Government Potential Power Rise
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Honesty Loyalty
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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Children Death Life Tragedy
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Dedication Fear Need Ourselves Strength World
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
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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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
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
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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Myself People Right
Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Discipline Freedom
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
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Achievement Foundation Security Strength
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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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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