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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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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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