We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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I 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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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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