I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERShot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
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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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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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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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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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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
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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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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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Pessimism never won any battle.
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