I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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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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