DDDwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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02Undated

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

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03Undated

One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof their way and give it to them.

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04Undated

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

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05Undated

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

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06Undated

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

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07Undated

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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08Undated

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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09Undated

Pessimism never won any battle.

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10Undated

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

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11Undated

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,

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12Undated

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

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13Undated

Only Americans can hurt America.

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14Undated

When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.

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15Undated

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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16Undated

Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.

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17Undated

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

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18Undated

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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19Undated

I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.

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20Undated

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

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21Undated

We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

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22Undated

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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23Undated

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

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24Undated

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

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