Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEREvery 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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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.
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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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