Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes Click here for Dwight D. Eisenhower books The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower "The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength – and strength alone." "We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose." "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. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history." "Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides." "Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well." "May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." "Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age." "Peace and Justice are two sides of the same coin." "In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable." "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity." "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." "Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." "If you want total security, go to prison." "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." "There is no victory at bargain basement prices." "I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court." |
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