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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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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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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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