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?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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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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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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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