Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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.
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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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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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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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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