War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERTrue 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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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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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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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 made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court. [Referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan]
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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