The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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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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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