We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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 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.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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