You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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Pessimism never won any battle.
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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
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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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Every 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. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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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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How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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