So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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