An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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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I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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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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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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