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.
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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Every 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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Every 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.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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