I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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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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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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