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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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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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