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. 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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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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.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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