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.
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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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 most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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