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?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWar is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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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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