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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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