I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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In 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?
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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