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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNo man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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