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. 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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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