Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAlways 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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 made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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