Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- 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.
- 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.
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- 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.
- I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
- 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.
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
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