Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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