Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever 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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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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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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