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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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