I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPeace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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.
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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 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.
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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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