“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. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. … Is there no other way the world may live?”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There is no victory at bargain basement prices.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Pessimism never won any battle.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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