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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERMob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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