Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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