If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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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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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle 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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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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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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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