The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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