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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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Only Americans can hurt 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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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