Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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