I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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