Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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