Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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