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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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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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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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