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.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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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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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.
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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