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?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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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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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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