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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.
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.
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.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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.
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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.