I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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