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The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.
The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.
There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal rights.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
There is one thing about being President -- nobody can tell you when to sit down.
No battle was ever won according to plan, but no battle was ever won without one.
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless
Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power must be sustained.
Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
In the highest sense the Bible is to us the unique repository of eternal spiritual truths.
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.
Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.
Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.
We are not saints. We know we make mistakes, but at least our heart is with the right cause.
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
The next time you see one of those squirrels go near my putting green, take a gun and shoot it
To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.