The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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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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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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In 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.
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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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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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