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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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Greatness Leadership Necessary Yourself
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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Black Crime Man Seek Stupidity Tragedy War
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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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
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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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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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Achievement Community Effort Serious War
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
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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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Choice War
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Battle Myself Planning Preparation
Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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Force Justice Man Peace Protection
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Atheist Care Game Man Win
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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Listen Myself Serious Talk War
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
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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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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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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