I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERGet 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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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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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