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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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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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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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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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 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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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