A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERA people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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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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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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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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 preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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.
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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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