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. EISENHOWERWars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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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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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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