Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNo man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do 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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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