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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEROur form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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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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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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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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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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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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