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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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