Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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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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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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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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