Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
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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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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The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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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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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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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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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.
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There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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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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We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice – their choice.
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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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The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.
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