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Peace Is More The Product Of Our Day-to-day Living Than Of A Spectacular Program, Intermittently Executed.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Peace Is More The Product Of Our Day-to-day Living Than Of A Spectacular Program, Intermittently Executed.

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The Teaching Of Their Ancient Belief Is Filled With Truth For The Present Day. Its Profound Sense Of Justice, Nation To Nation, Man To Man, Is An Essential Part Of Every Religious And Social Order. The Health Of Our Society Depends Upon A Deep And Abiding Respect For The Basic Commandments Of The God Of Israel.

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... We Have Been Warned By The Power Of Modern Weapons, That Peace May Be The Only Climate Possible For Human Life Itself ... There Must Be Law, Steadily Invoked And Respected By All Nations, For Without Law, The World Promises Only Such Meager Justice As The Pity Of The Strong Upon The Weak.

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With 450,000 U. S. Troops Now In Vietnam, It Is Time That Congress Decided Whether Or Not To Declare A State Of War Exists With North Vietnam. Previous Congressional Resolutions Of Support Provide Only Limited Authority. Although Congress May Decide That The Previously Approved Resolution On Vietnam Given President Johnson Is Sufficient, The Issue Of A Declaration Of War Should At Least Be Put Before The Congress For Decision.

These Are Not Bad People. All They Are Concerned About Is To See That Their Sweet Little Girls Are Not Required To Sit In School Alongside Some Big Overgrown Negroes.

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Don't Join The Book Burners. Do Not Think You Are Going To Conceal Thoughts By Concealing Evidence That They Ever Existed.

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I Have Full Confidence In Your Courage And Devotion To Duty And Skill In Battle. We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory! Good Luck! And Let Us Beseech The Blessing Of Almighty God Upon This Great And Noble Undertaking.

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War Is A Contest, And You Finally Get To A Point Where You Are Talking Merely About Race Suicide, And Nothing Else.

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Military Industrial Complex

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No Battle Was Ever Won According To Plan, But No Battle Was Ever Won Without One.

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We Will Bankrupt Ourselves In The Vain Search For Absolute Security.

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Inspirational Life

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Always Try To Associate Yourself Closely With And Learn As Much As You Can From Those Who Know More Than You, Who Do Better Than You, Who See More Clearly Than You. Apart From The Rewards Of Friendship, The Association Might Pay Off At Some Unforeseen Time - That Is Only An Accidental Byproduct. The Important Thing Is That The Learning Will Make You A Better Person.

There Must Be Justice, Sensed And Shared By All Peoples, For, Without Justice The World Can Know Only A Tense And Unstable Truce.

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.

Without God There Could Be No American Form Of Government, Nor An American Way Of Life. Recognition Of The Supreme Being Is The First, The Most Basic, Expression Of Americanism. Thus, The Founding Fathers Of America Saw It, And Thus With God's Help, It Will Continue To Be.

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.

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Science Seems Ready To Confer Upon Us, As Its Final Gift, The Power To Erase Human Life From This Planet.

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Never Let Yourself Be Persuaded That Any One Great Man, Any One Leader, Is Necessary To The Salvation Of America. When America Consists Of One Leader And 158 Million Followers, It Will No Longer Be America.

You Don't Lead By Hitting People Over The Head - That's Assault, Not Leadership.

There Is No Person In This Room Whose Basic Rights Are Not Involved In Any Successful Defiance To The Carrying Out Of Court Orders.

We Are Going To Have Peace Even If We Have To Fight For It.

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I Deplore The Need Or The Use Of Troops Anywhere To Get American Citizens To Obey The Orders Of Constituted Courts.

I Come From The Very Heart Of America.

When You Appeal To Force, There's One Thing You Must Never Do - Lose.

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I Have One Yardstick By Which I Test Every Major Problem - And That Yardstick Is: Is It Good For America?

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Politics Ought To Be The Part-time Profession Of Every Citizen Who Would Protect The Rights And Privileges Of Free People And Who Would Preserve What Is Good And Fruitful In Our National Heritage.

No One Should Be Appointed To Political Office If He Is A Seeker After It.

[not Achieving A Nuclear Test Ban] Would Have To Be Classed As The Greatest Disappointment Of Any Administration Of Any Decade, Of Any Time And Of Any Party.

I Do Not Believe That Any Political Campaign Justifies The Declaration Of A Moratorium On Ordinary Common Sense.

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The World No Longer Has A Choice Between Force And Law; If Civilization Is To Survive, It Must Choose The Rule Of Law.

As Quickly As You Start Spending Federal Money In Large Amounts, It Looks Like Free Money.

I Had Been Conscious A Feeling Of Depression And So I Voiced To [secretary Of War Stimson] My Grave Misgivings, First On The Basis Of My Belief That Japan Was Already Defeated And That Dropping The Bomb Was Completely Unnecessary, And Secondly Because I Thought That Our Country Should Avoid Shocking World Opinion By The Use Of A Weapon Whose Employment Was, I Thought, No Longer Mandatory As A Measure To Save American Lives. It Was My Belief That Japan Was, At This Very Moment, Seeking A Way To Surrender With A Minimum Loss Of 'face.'

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Politics Is A Profession; A Serious, Complicated And, In Its True Sense, A Noble One.

I Believe That Without Free Enterprise There Can Be No Democracy.

What The Church Should Be Telling The Worker Is That The First Demand Religion Makes On Him Is That He Should Be A Good Workman. If He Is A Carpenter He Should Be A Competent Carpenter. Church By All Means On Sundays-but What Is The Use Of Church If At The Very Center Of Life A Man Defrauds His Neighbor And Insults God By Poor Craftsmanship.

Under The Clouds Of War, It Is Humanity Hanging On A Cross Of Iron.

Our Real Problem, Then, Is Not Our Strength Today; It Is Rather The Vital Necessity Of Action Today To Ensure Our Strength Tomorrow.

We Need An Adequate Defense, But Every Arms Dollar We Spend Above Adequacy Has A Long-term Weakening Effect Upon The Nation And Its Security.

You Have A Row Of Dominoes Set Up; You Knock Over The First One, And What Will Happen To The Last One Is That It Will Go Over Very Quickly.

I Never Saw A Pessimistic General Win A Battle.

Planning Is Useless... But The Process Itself Is Indispensable.

The World Is More Like It Is Now Then It Ever Has Before.

Unless Each Day Can Be Looked Back Upon By An Individual As One In Which He Has Had Some Fun, Some Joy, Some Real Satisfaction, That Day Is A Loss.

The Past Sharpens Perspective, Warns Against Pitfalls, And Helps To Point The Way.

The One Weapon Every Man, Soldier, Sailor, Or Airman Should Be Able To Use Effectively Is The Rifle. It Is Always His Weapon Of Personal Safety In An Emergency, And For Many It Is The Primary Weapon Of Offence And Defense. Expertness In Its Use Cannot Be Over Emphasized.

Leadership Is The Ability To Decide What Is To Be Done And Then Get Others To Do It.

The Proudest Thing I Can Claim Is That I Am From Abilene.

And Now, As In No Other Age, We Seek It [peace] Because We Have Been Warned, By The Power Of Modern Weapons, That Peace May Be The Only Climate Possible For Human Life Itself.

Our Economy Is The Result Of Millions Of Decisions We All Make Every Day About Producing, Earning, Saving, Investing, And Spending.

If Any Blame Or Fault Attaches To The Attempt, It Is Mine Alone.

Through Unity Of Action We Can Be A Veritable Colossus In Support Of Peace. No One Can Defeat Us Unless We First Defeat Ourselves. Every One Of Us Must Be Guided By This Truth.

In Order To Be A Leader A Man Must Have Followers. And To Have Followers, A Man Must Have Their Confidence. Hence, The Supreme Quality For A Leader 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. If A Man's Associates Find Him Guilty Of Being Phony, If They Find That He Lacks Forthright Integrity, He Will Fail. His Teachings And Actions Must Square With Each Other. The First Great Need, Therefore, Is Integrity And High Purpose.

The Middle Of The Road Is All Of The Usable Surface. The Extremes, Right And Left, Are In The Gutters.

Give Us, We Pray, The Power To Discern Clearly Right From Wrong, And Allow All Our Words And Actions To Be Governed Thereby, And By The Laws Of This Land. Especially We Pray That Our Concern Shall Be For All The People Regardless Of Station, Race, Or Calling.

You Can Decide To Invade Russia At Dinner, Pick Waterloo For Battle On A Whim. It's The Details, The Small Stuff. Its Easy To Gamble A Million Lives. Whats Hard Is To See How That Can Hurt One Single Person. And If You Cant Keep That Straight, Hell, You'll Lose Your Humanity.

If You Are Waging Peace, You Can't Be Too Particular Sometimes About The Special Attitudes That Different Countries Take. We Were A Young Country Once, And Our Whole Policy For The First 150 Years Was, We Were Neutral.

I Say When You Get Into A War, You Should Win As Quick As You Can, Because Your Losses Become A Function Of The Duration Of The War. I Believe When You Get In A War, Get Everything You Need And Win It.

Any Survey Of The Free World's Defense Structure Cannot Fail To Impart A Feeling Of Regret That So Much Of Our Effort And Resources Must Be Devoted To Armaments.

We Look Upon This Shaken Earth, And We Declare Our Firm And Fixed Purpose - The Building Of A Peace With Justice In A World Where Moral Law Prevails.

The United States Pledges Before You-and Therefore Before The World-its Determination To Help Solve The Fearful Atomic Dilemma-to Devote Its Entire Heart And Mind To Find The Way By Which The Miraculous Inventiveness Of Man Shall Not Be Dedicated To His Death, But Consecrated To His Life.

Our Arms Must Be Mighty ... Ready For Instant Action, So That No Potential Aggressor May Be Tempted To Risk His Own Destruction

The Potential For The Disastrous Rise Of Misplaced Power Exists And Will Persist.

In All Those Things Which Deal With People, Be Liberal, Be Human. In All Those Things Which Deal With The People's Money Or Their Economy Or Their Form Of Government, Be Conservative.

Never Be More Scared Of The Enemy Than You Think He Is Of You.

The Peace We Seek And Need Means Much More Than Mere Absence Of War. It Means The Acceptance Of Law, And The Fostering Of Justice, In All The World.

We Will Accept Nothing Less Than Full Victory!

Peace Is More The Product Of Our Day-to-day Living Than Of A Spectacular Program, Intermittently Executed.

Day To Day Living

Patronage Is Almost A Wicked Word. By Itself It Could Well-nigh Defeat Democracy.

The Free World Must Not Prove Itself Worthy Of Its Own Past.

All Generalizations Are Inaccurate, Including This One.

We Have Heard Much Of The Phrase, Peace And Friendship. This Phrase, In Expressing The Aspiration Of America, Is Not Complete. We Should Say Instead, Peace And Friendship, In Freedom. This, I Think, Is America's Real Message To The Rest Of The World.

I Was Against It On Two Counts. First, The Japanese Were Ready To Surrender, And It Wasn't Necessary To Hit Them With That Awful Thing. Second, I Hated To See Our Country Be The First To Use Such A Weapon.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Now All Of Us Deplore This Vast Military Spending. Yet, In The Face Of The Soviet Attitude, We Realize Its Necessity. Whatever The Cost, America Will Keep Itself Secure. But In The Process We Must Not, By Our Own Hand, Destroy Or Distort The American System. This We Could Do By Useless Overspending. I Know One Sure Way To Overspend. That Is By Overindulging Sentimental Attachments To Outmoded Military Machines And Concepts.

As For Myself And For The Secretary Of State And Others Involved, Including Those In The Legislature, We Stand Ready To Do Anything, To Meet With Anyone, Anywhere, As Long As We May Do So In Self-respect, Demanding The Respect Due This Nation, And There Is Any Slightest Idea Or Chance Of Furthering This Great Cause Of Peace.

We Are Particularly Thankful To You For Your Part In The Movement To Have The Words Under God Added To Our Pledge Of Allegiance. These Words Will Remind Americans That Despite Our Great Physical Strength We Must Remain Humble. They Will Help Us Keep Constantly In Our Minds And Hearts The Spiritual And Moral Principles Which Alone Give Dignity To Man.

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.

Sweet Praise Is Like Perfume. It Is Fine If You Don't Swallow It.

Any Man Who Wants To Be President Is Either An Egomaniac Or Crazy.

Kinship Among Nations Is Not Determined In Such Measurements As Proximity Of Size And Age. Rather We Should Turn To Those Inner Things - Call Them What You Will - I Mean Those Intangibles That Are The Real Treasures Free Men Possess. To Preserve His Freedom Of Worship, His Equality Before Law, His Liberty To Speak And Act As He Sees Fit, Subject Only To Provisions That He Trespass Not Upon Similar Rights Of Others - A Londoner Will Fight. So Will A Citizen Of Abilene. When We Consider These Things, Then The Valley Of The Thames Draws Closer To The Farms Of Kansas And The Plains Of Texas.

Our Best Protection Against Bigger Government In Washington Is Better Government In The States.

But I Think A Life Of Raising Prize Cattle, Going Shooting Two Or Three Times A Year, Fishing In The Summer, And Interspersing The Whole Thing With Some Golf And Bridge - And Whenever I Felt Like Talking Or Writing, Doing It With Abandon And With No Sense Of Responsibility Whatsoever - Maybe Such A Life Wouldn't Be So Bad.

Through Knowledge And Understanding We Will Drive From The Temple Of Freedom All Who Seek To Establish Over Us Thought Control - Whether They Be Agents Of A Foreign Power Or Demagogues Thirsty For Personal Power And Public Notice.

"in The Goodness Of Time, All Peoples Will Come To Live Together In A Peace Guaranteed By The Binding Force Of Mutual Respect And Love."

Now, The Education Of Our Children Is Of National Concern, And If They Are Not Educated Properly, It Is A National Calamity.

There Are Three Stages Of Life: Youth, Maturity, And 'my, You're Looking Good!'

My Ambition In The Army Was To Make Everybody I Worked For Regretful When I Was Ordered To Other Duty.

I Also Ache At That Thought Your Majesty... But If They Do Not Offer The Sacrifice In Blood Now, We Will All Pay Dearly With Added Gallons Later. So If Some Most Die It Is In A Worthy Cause.

If The United Nations Once Admits That International Disputes Can Be Settled By Using Force, Then We Will Have Destroyed The Foundation Of The Organization And Our Best Hope Of Establishing A World Order.

The World Must Know What Happened, And Never Forget.

The One Quality That Can Be Developed By Studious Reflection And Practice Is The Leadership Of Men.

Don't Join The Book Burners... Don't Be Afraid To Go In Your Library And Read Every Book.

The Seeker Is Never So Popular As The Sought. People Want What They Can't Get.

Knowledge-full, Unfettered Knowledge Of Its Own Heritage, Of Freedom's Enemies, Of The Whole World Of Men And Ideas-this Knowledge Is A Free People's Surest Strength.

The Righteousness Of Men Should Be Treated With The Same Respect That One Would Accord To A Rattlesnake. Things Are More Like They Are Now Than They Ever Were Before.

I Assure You That It Is Our Desire And Intention To Keep The Doors Of Consultation Always And Fully Open. There Must Never Be A Final Word Between Friends.

Preparing For Battle, Plans Were Essential. But Once The Battle Was Joined, Plans Were Useless.

The World Must Learn To Work Together, Or Finally It Will Not Work At All.

Working Together

The Hope Of The World Is That Wisdom Can Arrest Conflict Between Brothers. I Believe That War Is The Deadly Harvest Of Arrogant And Unreasoning Minds. And I Find Grounds For This Belief In The Wisdom Literature Of Proverbs. It Says In Effect This: Panic Strikes Like A Storm And Calamity Comes Like A Whirlwind To Those Who Hate Knowledge And Ignore Their God.

Soldiers, Sailors And Airmen Of The Allied Expeditionary Force! You Are About To Embark Upon The Great Crusade, Toward Which We Have Striven These Many Months. The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You.

Disorganization Can Scarcely Fail To Result In Efficiency.

Disorganization

We Want Democracy To Survive For All Generations To Come, Not To Become The Insolvent Phantom Of Tomorrow.

That Was Not The Biggest Battle That Ever Was, But For Me It Always Typified One Thing; The Dash, The Ingenuity, The Readiness At The First Opportunity That Characterizes The American Soldier.

Guns And Tanks And Planes Are Nothing Unless There Is A Solid Spirit, A Solid Heart, And Great Productiveness Behind It.

Dollars And Guns Are No Substitutes For Brains And Will Power.

I Get Weary Of The European Habit Of Taking Our Money, Resenting Any Slight Hint As To What They Should Do, And Then Assuming, In Addition, Full Right To Criticize Us As Bitterly As They May Desire.

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