Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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.
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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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