Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERIt is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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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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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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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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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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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
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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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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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