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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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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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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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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.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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