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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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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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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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