American - President | October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
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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 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.
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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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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
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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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