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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERExtremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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