Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNo man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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The 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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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