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“Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.”

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Bobby Knight, born on October 25, 1940, is a renowned basketball coach. He has a high reputation in the basketball world and has coached at the University of Kentucky and the University of Texas, leading his teams to multiple NCAA championships. more

“In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down they will still know hunger. They will see suffering in the eyes of their children. Many despair that their labor will ever decently shelter their families or protect them against disease. So long as this is so, peace and freedom will be in danger throughout our world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958

“So - our readiness to meet and defeat this kind of possible attack is forced upon us, both as a potent preventive of actual war and to insure survival in event of attack. This alertness to danger has to be translated into specific policies and activities in the several parts of the world where our rights - our way of life - can be seriously damaged. Work of this kind occupies my days and nights.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I have said time and again there is no place on this earth to which I would not travel, there is no chore I would not undertake if I had any faintest hope that, by so doing, I would promote the general cause of world peace.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955

“As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet with anyone, anywhere, as long as we may do so in self-respect, demanding the respect due this Nation, and there is any slightest idea or chance of furthering this great cause of peace.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

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