History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThrough 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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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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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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