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. 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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have 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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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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 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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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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