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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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
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Neither a wise man 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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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
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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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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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War settles nothing.
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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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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
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