Pessimism never won any battle.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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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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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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