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" In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? "

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" There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. "

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" When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. "

" In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. "

" The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. "

" History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. "

" This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. "

" I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. "

" The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good. "

" I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. "

" Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. "

" We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. "

" 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. "

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" The sergeant is the Army. "

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" I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. "

" I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. "

" I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. "

" Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "

" An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. "

" Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. "

" Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. "

" Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. "

" The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. "

" 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 supreme quality for leadership 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. "

" No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. "

" When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. "

" Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. "

" Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. "

" 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. "

" The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. "