Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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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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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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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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