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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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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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