A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPreventive 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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Don’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.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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