Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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