We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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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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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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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 question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has 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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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