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?
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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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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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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.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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