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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
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"Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without."

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"Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same."

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Stephen King Author
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."

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Muhammad Naguib Military Leader, Politician
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"Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it."

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