We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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How 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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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