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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAlways try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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Don’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.
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