The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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