History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHistory teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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