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.
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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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