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Historical Figures Quotes |
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.
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders
of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration
and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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War settles nothing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come
to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to
go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
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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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor
security.
Benjamin Franklin
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Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin
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Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected
of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin
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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought
upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
and expecting different results.
Benjamin Franklin
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all
hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder
of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all
free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
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There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially
in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover
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If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is
at an end.
Herbert Hoover
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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not
socialism.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and
debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial
appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine
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He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy
from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will
reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell
and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its
best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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