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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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable 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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Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene
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There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly
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Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.
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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
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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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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one
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Only Americans can hurt America
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head ù that's assault, not leadership
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There is one thing about being President, no one can tell you when to sit down
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs
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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
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The president cannot escape from his office
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice
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Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin
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The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you
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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency
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One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them.
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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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When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it
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