Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPreventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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.
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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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