If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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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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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.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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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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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