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.
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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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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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.
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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 intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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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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