A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHow 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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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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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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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