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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

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Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

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There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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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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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.

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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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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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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

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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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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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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

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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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Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

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I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

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Only Americans can hurt America.

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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

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When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

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