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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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 supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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