History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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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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