Only Americans can hurt America.
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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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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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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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