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. EISENHOWEROnly Americans can hurt America.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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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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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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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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