Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIn 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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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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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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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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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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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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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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