Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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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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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 a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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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.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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.
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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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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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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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