History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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