What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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