If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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