Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERMob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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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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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
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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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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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