If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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Always 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.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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