True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERI 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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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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The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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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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We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is.
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