They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn 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?
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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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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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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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