All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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 problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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