Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERExtremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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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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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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