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.
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.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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