War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Freedom Peace Seek
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
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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Dog Fight Necessary
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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Care Government Myself Religious
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People
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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Existence Government Potential Power Rise
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
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
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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Destroy Problem Yourself
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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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Justice One Liner Peace
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
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
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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Freedom Prison Security
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Honesty Loyalty
I 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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Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame
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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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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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Action Death Flower Freedom Heart Life Man Spirit
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
Only Americans can hurt America.
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Hurt Nation One Liner

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