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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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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Leadership Responsibility Wrong
I 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.
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Government Myself Peace Thinking
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Children Genius Hope
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
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Friendship Humility Man Sacrifice
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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Ideas Integrity Man Myself
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Satisfaction Time
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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Control Establish Freedom Knowledge Power Seek Understand
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Himself Intellectual Man Necessary Word
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Destroy Problem Yourself
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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Book Evidence Existence Library Reading Thinking
They may excuse failure but they will not excuse abandonment.
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Failure Leaving
Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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Brave Future Himself History Lie Man Wisdom
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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Afraid Book Library Reading Yourself
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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Children Existence Necessary Problem Understood World
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Deep Important

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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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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