Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Always 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.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER