The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERNever send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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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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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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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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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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