We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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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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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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