Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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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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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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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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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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