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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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.
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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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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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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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