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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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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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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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