We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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