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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Hate Live Myself Stupidity War
Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Blessing Greatness
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Change Past Philosophy Present
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Destroy Problem Yourself
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Believe Government Myself Peace Thinking
Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Action Yourself
Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Stupidity War
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Care Government Myself Religious
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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

History Powerful Teaching
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Achievement Community Effort Serious War
The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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