.I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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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.
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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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.
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.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Though force can protect in emergency,
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
33rd President of the United States
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