I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.
Interpretation
Communication and openness are vital in maintaining friendships.
In this quote, Eisenhower emphasizes the importance of ongoing dialogue and the avoidance of finality in conversations among friends. He suggests that friendships thrive on continuous communication and an openness to differing viewpoints, reinforcing the idea that true friends should always be willing to talk and resolve conflicts rather than letting disagreements put an end to their relationship.
In practice
During a toast at a wedding, one might reference this quote to highlight the importance of open communication in marriage.
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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