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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
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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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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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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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War settles nothing.
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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.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry ’fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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.
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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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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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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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
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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.