The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERYou do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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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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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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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