Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERHow 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?
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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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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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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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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