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. EISENHOWERHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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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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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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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