Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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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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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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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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