Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWEREvery 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.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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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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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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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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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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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking, is freedom.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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