The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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 waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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