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.
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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.
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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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The 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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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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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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