We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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.
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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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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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