A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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