The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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