In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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