“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
Death“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.”
Wisdom“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
Death“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.”
Experience“Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.”
Age“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.”
Men“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
Peace“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
Peace“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
Intelligence“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.”
Peace“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”
Fear“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
Freedom“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
Future“The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.”
Strength“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.”
Good“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”
History“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
Freedom“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
War“Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”
Politics“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Pet“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.”
Government“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
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