Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPessimism never won any battle.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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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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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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