We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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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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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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