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.
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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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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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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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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