I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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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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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.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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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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