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.
Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.
When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
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