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.
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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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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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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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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