The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThose who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life 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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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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