I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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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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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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 its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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