Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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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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