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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERA people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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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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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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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