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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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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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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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