We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERMob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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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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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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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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