Only Americans can hurt America.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEREvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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