Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEREvery 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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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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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 world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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