Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERDon’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.
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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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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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