May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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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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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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