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. 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.”

—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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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. ”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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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.”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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"What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important"

—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

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"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. …Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications.… 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 (1890-1969)