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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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