Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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