It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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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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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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