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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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