Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWar 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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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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