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.

Quote by Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game...

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game...

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than...

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than...

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which...

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which...

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and...

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and...

Pessimism never won any battle.

Pessimism never won any battle.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any...

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any...

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead...

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend...

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left...

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left...

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do...

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do...

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and...

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and...

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Only Americans can hurt America.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick...

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick...

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that...

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that...

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I...

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I...