The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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?
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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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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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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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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