Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERMay we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for 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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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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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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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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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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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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