I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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