We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of considering the long-term consequences of our actions rather than focusing solely on immediate gratification.
Eisenhower's quote speaks to the necessity of foresight and responsibility in our daily lives. It warns against the temptation to exploit present resources for short-term benefits at the expense of future generations. This perspective urges individuals and societies to think beyond their immediate needs and to act with a sense of duty toward the future, ensuring that we do not deplete the resources that will be needed later on, ultimately advocating for sustainable choices.
In practice
This quote can be shared in an environmental seminar to highlight the importance of conservation.
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.
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.
Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.
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