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?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERGood luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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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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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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