Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERYou do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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 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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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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 preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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