So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Though 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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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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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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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