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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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Courage Hope Ignorance Practice True
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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Darkness Freedom Human Light Man Peace
Pessimism never won any battle.
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Battle Win
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Easy Search
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Lose People Principle Value Worth
We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Choice Freedom History Man
You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Leadership People Yourself
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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