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.
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.
We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.
When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.
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