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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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 time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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