I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPessimism never won any battle.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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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.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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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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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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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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