A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERWe must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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I don’t like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.
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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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