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.
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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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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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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