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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Life Power Wrong
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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History Powerful Teaching
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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Children Death Life Tragedy
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
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
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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Myself People Right
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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People Thinking Waste Yourself
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Fight Peace
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Man Nation Problem
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Change Past Philosophy Present
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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
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
We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Achievement Foundation Security Strength
Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
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

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