The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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