Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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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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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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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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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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