Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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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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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Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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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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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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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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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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War is mankind’s most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.
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All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
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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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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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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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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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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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Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.
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