They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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