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.
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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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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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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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