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. EISENHOWERNever question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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