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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThey may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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