Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERA people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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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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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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 made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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