What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEROnly Americans can hurt America.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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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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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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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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