Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes and Sayings
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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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“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
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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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“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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“The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy.”
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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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“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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
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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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“The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower