Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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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?
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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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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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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