What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWorry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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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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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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