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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About War

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

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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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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes About Peace

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

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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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More Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

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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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The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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Neither a wise man 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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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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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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

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I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

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The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

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The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

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Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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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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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

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There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

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I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

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The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

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I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

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The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

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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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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

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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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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

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Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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