May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThose who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Don’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.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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