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" Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thoughts
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" If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. "
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" Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. "
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" May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. "
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" I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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Care
Freedom
Medical
" I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. "
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American
Looking
Face
" When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. "
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War
People
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" Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. "
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Things
Than
Now
" Pessimism never won any battle. "
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Pessimism
Any
Battle
" Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. "
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You
He
Leadership
" When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. "
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Work
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" I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? "
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Test
America
Good
" 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. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Influence
Power
Government
" We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Words
Aristocratic
Harvard
" Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
First
World
Heart
" There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everyone
Wrong
Washington
" Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Weakness
Strength
Only
" The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Important
Believe
Step
" We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ourselves
Vain
Search
" The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. "
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World
Prove
Worthy
" There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. "
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Rights
Successful
Involved
" I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? "
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America
Good
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" Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. "
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Age
Youth
Women
" The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hear
Never
Best
" An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. "
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Who
Man
Game
" You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. "
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Happen
Go
Over
" This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. "
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Hate
Trust
Respect
" There is no victory at bargain basement prices. "
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Bargain
Basement
Prices