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.
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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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.
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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
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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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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.
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Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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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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Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.
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If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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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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Wars are stupid and they can start stupidly.
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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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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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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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Through knowledge and understanding, we will drive from the temple of freedom all those who seek to establish over us thought control, whether they be agents of a foreign state or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
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Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.
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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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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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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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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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Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.
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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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