Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThose who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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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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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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 search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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