I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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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 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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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