"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.“

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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."

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