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.
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.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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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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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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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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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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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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