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.
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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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