It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERLeadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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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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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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