You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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