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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

Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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Stupidity War
Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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Life Power Wrong
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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Freedom Powerful Problem World
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Art Leadership People
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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Myself Word Worry
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Development Experience
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Care Freedom History Trust Weakness
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
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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Funny Mistake Myself
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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History Powerful Teaching
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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Improvement Oneself Philosophy Wrong
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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Myself People Right
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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Action Man Wisdom
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
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Determination Foundation Moral Politics Power
What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Deep Important
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Alone Attachment Blame

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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