Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERFreedom 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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