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.
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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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