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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHow 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?
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Every 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.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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