I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERStatesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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.
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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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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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