I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEROnly Americans can hurt America.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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 send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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