Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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 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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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