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. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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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. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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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. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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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. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. —Lewis H. Lapham, American writer and editor

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. —János Arany, Hungarian writer and poet

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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. —Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian activist

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… with all his noble qualities … with all these exalted powers … Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. —Charles Darwin, British naturalist

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A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. —Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer

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