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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom 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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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