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?
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 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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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