What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERPessimism never won any battle.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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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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The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.
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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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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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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.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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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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