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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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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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