History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWar is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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