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?
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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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.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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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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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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