"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search……" — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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338 Quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle.
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... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for…
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and…
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Controlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief…
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience,…
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This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way…
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When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the…
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I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less…
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During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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