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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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