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.
I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.
And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care.
It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
It's such a happiness when good people get together.
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond endearments and tender officiousness; and, therefore, no one should think it unnecessary to learn those arts by which friendship may be gained.
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