Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

George Washington

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We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Dwight Eisenhower

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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

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Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Confucius

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Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

George Washington

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