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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIf any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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