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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThough force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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