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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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