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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - in his first inaugural address [Principles] Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. - [Freedom] Do not needlessly endanger your lives until ordered to do so. - [Danger] Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power. - [Brain] Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield. - [Farming] History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. - [History] 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. - [Humility] 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. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. - [Government] Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice. - [Equality] Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars. - [Morale] No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. - in "Parade Magazine" [Presidency] Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. - [Presidency] Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. - [Strength] Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. - [Peace : Justice] Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. - [Politics] Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. - [Want] The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past. - [Freedom] The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation more than its wealth. - [Spirit] The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . . - [History] The uninspected deteriorates. - [Bureaucracy] 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. - [Diplomacy] Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. - [Present] Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - [Peace] We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. - [Peace] We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. - [Peace] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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