I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERGood luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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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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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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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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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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