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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERMay we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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 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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