There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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?
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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