History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe 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.
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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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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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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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