The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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.
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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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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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