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?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERMob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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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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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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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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