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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERA sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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 hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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