A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERSo the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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