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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNeither 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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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